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Mapping: Ways of Representing the World. By DANIEL DORLING and DAVID FAIRBAIRN. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997, 184 pp. ,1 1.99 (pbk). ISBN 0 582 28972 6
Maps often reveal more about the values and culture of their creators than the society and places they depict. Equally, in that no map can be truly objective, the creation and use of maps profoundly affects the way we think of the world. These issues form the focus of this concise, lively and accessible textbook on cartography and mapping and their underlying political and social forces.
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