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| I hadn't intended to put up more maps, but I just came across a treasure trove of interesting cartography, and I couldn't resist putting up some examples here. The map above is Japanese, from the time of World War l. |
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| Above, a detail showing Western Europe. Note the arrows in Germany, including an arrow labled "Japan." What does that refer to? I did all this research in an attempt to answer Katie's request for the address of the guy selling posters of Keith Thompson's "The Great War 1914," shown in a post below. I finally found it: http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/grandmap.html The price seems steep considering the size of the poster, which is only 13" X 19." On the other hand, if the poster is half as beautiful as the reproduction on this site, it'll be worth it. |
It's really just the wrong publishing engine to try to do this overlap thing.
ReplyDeleteAll this is interiging.
ReplyDeleteNow I'd like to see a funny, talented cartoonist draw a map. I recall that when I was younger, in elementary school, I used to draw a bunch of fake maps for fun, or at least fake landmarks and islands.
ReplyDeleteIt's cool to see one of these from an Asian point of view. The political references are mostly inscrutable to me, but I totally get the Japanese view of Britain as a sea monster. Africa has been sliced up & political boundaries arbitrarily stitched together by the Great Powers. Ominously, China is a merchant pig, bloated with surplus resources.
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