Comments on: Here there be dragons

By: japanese words

japanese words — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:50:09 +0000

I love old books with maps. It makes the story seem more real. Rather than fiction it is just something that got forgotten with time.

By: Osama

Osama — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:32:10 +0000

Wow, that’s quite a find! I love looking at old maps :D

By: solrize

solrize — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:44:17 +0000

The other side of that is a song written from a dragon’s point of view, called “Here be Cartographers”, by Benjamin Newman:

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/bnewman/songs/lyrics/HereBeCartographers.txt (lyrics)
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/bnewman/songs/music/HereBeCartographers.mp3 (audio)

By: libraryfinds

libraryfinds — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:03:23 +0000

Ooh, more mappy goodness. Thanks for the tips.

By: Kanosereg

Kanosereg — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:17:57 +0000

Terrific stuff! If this book excites you like it excites me, I recommend you check out Colin McEvedy’s series of historical atlases. There are several (ancient, medieval, modern, recent, etc.), and each features (mostly-European) maps on the right hand pages, and tight, pithy prose on the left. It’s a real pleasure to page through these books and watch history unfold.

“The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History: Revised Edition” would be the volume that lines up with the Ptolemaic maps.

ISBN 0140513485.