Dear Colleagues,
Some summer holiday reading was published recently -
"Mercator, the man who mapped the planet" by Nicholas Crane
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002. £20.
ISBN0297646656
The biographical notes state that Nicholas Crane is a geographer and
adventurer.
The author gives acknowledgement to quite a few folk we know in the map
world.
Ann
Ann Sutherland
Map Librarian,
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