Frank Jacobs

Author, Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities

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February 7, 2012
Frank wrote 552 - When Macbeth Met Hamlet: a Scandinavian Scotland? in Strange Maps
To be or not to be Scandinavian, that might be the question soon enough for Scotland, if it decides to become independent. For the time being, Scotland is still a part of the United Kingdom, as it... Read More 
January 30, 2012
Frank wrote 551 - Desperately Seeking Dalston: A Field Study in Strange Maps
Where is this? The question is simple enough, and in a non-metropolitan environment, the answer may be correspondingly unambiguous. But in large cities, where the flow of human traffic is fast and... Read More 
January 24, 2012
Frank wrote 550 - The City and the Kitty, and Other Urban Analogies in Strange Maps
Surprise meeting with an old acquaintance in the Whitechapel Gallery - Grayson Perry’s Map of an Englishman (discussed in #241). “It’s the work that draws the most people, and gets the most laughs... Read More 
January 17, 2012
Frank wrote 549 - Missouri Pukes and Illinois Suckers: a 'Pignominious' Map of the States in Strange Maps
Last April, this blog discussed a map, dating from 1875, that showed the lower 48 states of the US in the shape of a hog: [T]his must be the world’s finest - and possibly only - example of sustain... Read More 
January 9, 2012
Frank wrote 548 - Wishful Mapping: a Half-baked Alaska, and the Passage That Wasn't There in Strange Maps
What a strange concoction this late-18th-century French map is. Centred on the northwestern part of America, it is an eclectic mix of geographic fact and fiction. Some continental contours are ins... Read More 

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