"Short’s fascinating and generously illustrated book examines the changing face of maps as ’social constructions’ in the new found land over three centuries."

The Guardian

"This is an important work that students of the history of American cartography will want to own."

Imago Mundi

"This is a fascinating book about the mapping (c. 1600-1900) of the land that came to be called the United States of America. . . . The reader is treated to vignettes concerning some early geographers, geologists, ethnologists, cartographers, and others, many of whom were associated with the great surveys of the trans-Mississippi. The whole is admirably illustrated with some 60 map reproductions and other illustrations. References, a select bibliography, and index are of much utility. All collections."

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