West Africa and the "Mountains of Kong" : 無料・フリー素材/写真
West Africa and the "Mountains of Kong" / Edu-Tourist
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| 説明 | This view of West Africa was extracted from the 'Map of Africa' plate in an Samuel Augustus Mitchell's School and Family Geography (1839) published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are a number of features on this map worthy of notice: The location of British and Portuguese settlements in the Senegambia region, the British Colony of Sierra Leone (Freetown shown as "Free T"), the American Colony of Liberia, and the mythological "Mountains of Kong" separating Upper Guinea and Soudan.Sources:The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.comThomas J. Bassett. "Cartography and Empire Building in Nineteenth-Century West Africa." Geographical Review. 84, No. 3 (1994), pp. 316-335.Thomas J. Bassett and Philip W. Porter. " 'From the Best Authorities': The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa. 32, No. 3 (1991), pp. 367-413. David Rumsey and Edith M. Punt. Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed. ESRI Press (March 2004).In the past thirteen years, the image featured above has garnered tremendous interest: 28,000 page views; and, its (further cropped) republication on p. 208 of Simon Garfield (2013) On the Map: A mind-expanding exploration of the way the world works (New York: Gotham Books). You can hear the author of this book interviewed for NPR's national morning show "All Thinks Considered" here.-Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as my personal favorite. If you like this one, you should also check out the this map of the city where the atlas was engraved and printed. |
| 撮影日 | 2004-12-12 22:29:29 |
| 撮影者 | Edu-Tourist , Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America |
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