Tag: africa

  • Apocalypse 187 - A Map of the Apocalypse

    over 4 years ago

    Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    Scientists predict the Earth will end 5 billion years from now, when the Sun becomes a red giant. Certain religious people are more alarmist, claiming the Apocalypse is just around the corner. In some versions of Christian eschatology (i.e. the study of end times), the Apocalypse will spare ... Read More

  • Missing 100 - A Vulture's View of Ethiopia

    about 5 years ago

    Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    Richard Edes Harrison trained as an architect, but became known as an illustrator for Time (from 1932 onwards) and other national news magazines. His specialty was cartography, applying unusual perspectives and orientations to maps to present information about the global flow of oil, the network ... Read More

About Strange Maps

569 Posts since 2006

Frank Jacobs loves maps, but finds most atlases too predictable. He collects and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006, first on WordPress and now for Big Think.  His map "US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs" has been viewed more than 587,000 times. An anthology of maps from this blog was published by Penguin in 2009 and can be purchased from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

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