Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world, challenging traditional Eurocentric perspectives. Released by the Brazilian Institute of ...

Notes "This book is called 'World geo-graphic atlas' because it includes, in addition to GEO-graphic maps, many GRAPHIC illustrations of subjects closely related to modern geography" --Verso of t.p.

Pictorial maps thrived in the United States from the 1920s to the ’60s, says Stephen Hornsby, a professor of geography at the University of Maine and author of a new book, Picturing America: The ...