Bacon's popular Atlas of The World

Railways, battle sites, explorers' polar routes and comparative statistics fill Bacon's Popular Atlas of the World, which se...

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Railways, battle sites, explorers' polar routes and comparative statistics fill Bacon's Popular Atlas of the World, which set political geography beside transport and exploration at the end of the nineteenth century. The maps here span issues from the 1890s into the early twentieth century, with city and harbour insets adding detail. Canada, Australia and colonial Africa carry administrative names that have since changed, and the Asian sheets record European spheres of influence and older place names. The polar maps also show contemporary systems of time, diagrams compare marine tonnage, population and land area, and Mediterranean ports and commercial routes give the atlas a practical bent.

Railways, battle sites, explorers' polar routes and comparative statistics fill Bacon's Popular Atlas of the World, which set political geography beside transport and exploration at the end of the nineteenth century. The maps here span issues from the 1890s into the early twentieth century, with city and harbour insets adding detail. Canada, Australia and colonial Africa carry administrative names that have since changed, and the Asian sheets record European spheres of influence and older place names. The polar maps also show contemporary systems of time, diagrams compare marine tonnage, population and land area, and Mediterranean ports and commercial routes give the atlas a practical bent.

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