Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime -- Reviewed by Scott Anderson -- page 95
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Blank, Paul W.(California Geographical Society, 2002)
The floor of a classroom or a gymnasium can be
turned into an enormous walk-on map using United States
government aeronautical charts, which cover the land area
of the earth at scales of 1:1,000,000 or 1:500,000. When ...
Pryde, Philip R.(California Geographical Society, 2002)
Southern Californians are about to face some tough
water choices. With the implementation of the Quantification
Settlement Agreement (also called the "4.4 Plan"), California
will within the next fifteen years be limited ...
Studying relict landscapes has long provided geographers
with clues to reconstructing past cultures; however,
a focus on the landscape alone may ultimately prove
deceptive. Equally vital is an examination of the social ...
From the 1850s to the 1930s, immigrants of northern
Italian heritage settled throughout Northern California.
These individuals and families coalesced in urban neighborhoods
and rural outposts and became the predominant ...
Lassiter, Unna; Wolch, Jennifer R.(California Geographical Society, 2002)
In geographic research of the past decade, the understanding
of nature-society relations has broadened to include
ideas about our relationship with and attitudes toward
animals. In this study, we explore the relationship ...