Raisz Landform Maps
I was praising Raven Maps. I would be grossly amiss not to mention Erwin Raisz. His hand-drawn maps are detailed almost beyond imagining. They seem to lie at the intersection of art and science. When I look at his Landform outline map of the United States with adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico, I feel that I see the skeleton of the nation explained – the essence of how we’re put together.
Raisz Landform Maps is maintained in good part as a memorial to an extraordinary man. The web site is worth a visit to read his story, and for the links.
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Dave,
I especially enjoyed the US map showing contiguous parts of Canada and Mexico. It reminded me of a passage of _The Once and Future King_ that we discussed years ago–the part when King Arthur-to-be takes on bird form and sees the world from a new perspective, with no arbitrary political divisions…no dotted lines on the ground.
Beth, Thanks for a week of fine reading. As I mentioned a few days ago, I went back to The Sword in the Stone, the first book of The Once and Future King, for the first time in far too long, to reread the section you mention, in which Arthur-to-be migrates across the North Sea as a goose. I have what I take to be a first edition of The Sword in the Stone, I I reread it in that form. (It was written first, as a children’s story about The Wart’s childhood, and then he took on the larger project of the full Arthurian legend.)
I finished it tonight: The story of the geese isn’t in it! I found my copy of The Once and Future King in Andy’s room, and flipped immediately to that story, added to what is now the first book of a larger work. Ah well, the children’s form is perfect, and I’ll read the story of the geese soon.