Promotional Information

This book received and honourable mention in the 1998 Professional/Scholarly publishing division award for best book in geography and earth sciences by the association of American publishers.

About the Author

David Woodward (1942-2004) was the Arthur H. Robinson Professor of Geography Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for more than twenty years. Along with the late J. B. Harley, he was founding editor of the History of Cartography Project. In 2002, the Royal Geographical Society honored him with the Murchison Award for his lifelong contribution to the study of the history of cartography.