introduction to mapping: Project 2a

"...I want to teach a class someday that includes as its texts, the introductions to great books...." Professor Bender, 2009.

MAPPING
Reading from the introduction to the book, "Mapping" by David Greenhood, University of Chicago, 1964, se 1965.


Passages from the introduction to "Mapping"

"Many of the most inventive novelists draw maps while writing, so that they may keep before them the whole scene of the action and make their fiction as credible as history to the reader." p. x

"There is an important reassurance in realizing the connection between one's own backyard on the surface of the earth and the position of the planet in the vastness of space." p. xii

"After we have developed an eye for maps our keenest enjoyment of them comes, perhaps, not from the general purpose maps, which had formerly been the only ones with which we had been at ease, but from special purpose maps. Particularly those that suit our purpose." p.240