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Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation [Paperback]

Armin K. Lobeck (Author)
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"The book is a treasure trove of tidbits describing how the world around us came about. . . . Things Maps Don't Tell Us actually communicates a great deal about the things maps can tell us if we care to look carefully underneath the printed symbols."—James E. Young, Cartographic Perspectives
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unique, July 11 2002
This review is from: Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation (Paperback)
In high school we took a lot of geography, and learned about "tombolos" and "terminal moraines" and such, but damned if the teacher ever gave you an example.

This book has an interesting approach - it shows a map on one side, the text points out interesting or unusually features, and then a second page with diagram and text explains the origin of the feature.

It seems like a simple idea, but it's an approach I've seen in few other places.

Some negatives:
This is a re-print of a fairly old book, so perhaps (according to the new forword) some of the theory is a little old. I feel however, the bulk of the material is still valid, and well worth it. (It's too bad some aspiring professor somewhere does write an up-to-date book using the same approach)

The new forword doesn't add much to the book, and the publisher might better have left it out.

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5.0 out of 5 stars All you have ever wanted to know about georaphy and geology, Mar 13 2001
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Paul Malecka (Stuart, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation (Paperback)
I haven't read the paperback, but I just came across my copy of the 1956 hard cover and devoured it with renewed interest.Professor Lobeck selects 72 examples of geography and on the facing page illustrates the geological activity that resulted in that geography.New York harbor, Long Island, the Florida peninsula, the Great Lakes, the island arcs of the Pacific and the Caribbean are among the many mapped and explained geologically.A great book for the student of earth science and the traveller interested in maps and why the our earth is so different and interesting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unique, July 11 2002
By "mcc1701" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation (Paperback)
In high school we took a lot of geography, and learned about "tombolos" and "terminal moraines" and such, but damned if the teacher ever gave you an example.

This book has an interesting approach - it shows a map on one side, the text points out interesting or unusually features, and then a second page with diagram and text explains the origin of the feature.

It seems like a simple idea, but it's an approach I've seen in few other places.

Some negatives:
This is a re-print of a fairly old book, so perhaps (according to the new forword) some of the theory is a little old. I feel however, the bulk of the material is still valid, and well worth it. (It's too bad some aspiring professor somewhere does write an up-to-date book using the same approach)

The new forword doesn't add much to the book, and the publisher might better have left it out.


8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars All you have ever wanted to know about georaphy and geology, Mar 13 2001
By Paul Malecka - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation (Paperback)
I haven't read the paperback, but I just came across my copy of the 1956 hard cover and devoured it with renewed interest.Professor Lobeck selects 72 examples of geography and on the facing page illustrates the geological activity that resulted in that geography.New York harbor, Long Island, the Florida peninsula, the Great Lakes, the island arcs of the Pacific and the Caribbean are among the many mapped and explained geologically.A great book for the student of earth science and the traveller interested in maps and why the our earth is so different and interesting.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Inheritance, July 27 2006
By Mike Edwards - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation (Paperback)
Love of maps runs in my family. Maybe there is a map-gene. Or maybe that fact that my dad owned this book is what caused this love of maps to be passed on to me and my sister.

When my dad passed away, this was the one book I wanted as my inheritance.
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