Maps and map-makers

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Location	Collection	Call #
CLP - Main Library	Second Floor - Closed Reference (Please ask for assistance)	r GA201.T6 1990x
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor - Closed Reference (Please ask for assistance)
Call Number	r GA201.T6 1990x

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Published Reviews

Publisher's Weekly Review: "In this ruminative collection, Gopnik offers five essays on winter-exploring it as season and idea, elemental force and cultural influence. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon composed these pieces for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. He acknowledges that "chapters are meant to sound vocal" and rough edges have been left in place. Readers will find pleasures of the serendipitous variety, including introductions to Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the underground architect Vincent Ponte, and the engineers who helped developed central heating. Gopnik's round-the-world tour of "romantic winter" covers more than 200 years in art, music, poetry, literature, and theology. In "Radical Winter," he describes the absurd courage of the men who raced for glory at the North and South Poles; in "Recreational Winter," he untangles the motley origins of ice hockey. Though the prose moves slowly at times, Gopnik leavens dense material with humor, and makes unwieldy concepts accessible through modern-day comparisons (consider Dickens the Francis Ford Coppola of his day). In the end, the lectures serve as Gopnik's equivalent to a Playmate's "turn-ons and turn-offs." That being the case, we'd call him a worthy Mr. December. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."

Additional Information

Subjects	Cartography -- History. Cartographers -- Biography.
Publisher	New York :Dorset Press,1987
Edition	7th ed.
Language	English
Notes	Reprint. Previously published: London : B.T. Batsford, 1987.
Description	xv, 140 pages, 96 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	0880291613
Other	Classic View