Volume 2, Number 2 · March 5, 1964
On the Map
By W.V. Quine
The Atlas of Britain and Northern Ireland
planned and directed by D.P. Bickmore, by M.A. Shaw
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 222 pp., $100.00
Even in England, where it can be had for $73.50, this book will grace few homes. It is heavy equipment. Top to bottom it exceeds twenty inches, nineteen being a two-millionth of the length of Great Britain, and it opens to half a square yard. It can usefully occupy broad tables in major libraries, and also in great offices where farreaching plans are laid. Page by farreaching page it offers the far-reaching planner a vue d'ensemble of how the todder roots and green crops, the department stores and bacon factories, the breweries, coke ovens, sycamores, people, and skilled people are disposed over the face of the United Kingdom. Forward looking, it maps the rates of population growth; upward, the sunshine and rain; downward, the underground water resources and all the geologic inwardness of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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