"REVIEW ESSAY: AN ATLAS TO BE READ FROM COVER TO COVER" by Harm J. de Blij

Great Plains Studies, Center for

 

Date of this Version

Fall 2012

Document Type

Article

Citation

Great Plains Research, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2012, pp 203-206

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© Copyright 2012 by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abstract

Preparing for this review I began by scanning the volume and stopping to read several especially interesting maps, finding myself riveted and, it seemed, on a journey of discovery. It has often been said about books, but perhaps never about an atlas, "I could not put it down once I had opened it." Nor has any atlas ever enhanced my knowledge of any region as greatly as this one has. There can be no doubt about it: no region, certainly in North America and perhaps in the world, is as well served as is the Great Plains region by this monumental work. Its nearly 30-page bibliography is an invaluable resource all by itself.

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