This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently been uncovered in Sweden and are being curated there by the Grenna Museum. The three… Read More Peter J. Capelotti (ed.) (2021): The Coldest Coast. The 1873 Leigh Smith Expedition to Svalbard in the Diaries and Photographs of Herbert Chermside. Springer: Cham.

This monograph gives a comprehensive but in-depth analysis of the territorial development of Croatia and historical processes of significant spatial impact. It covers the millennial time span – from prehistory till the present, through relevant periods, e.g., prehistory, antiquity, Middle Ages, period of Ottoman progression and retreat, Post-Ottoman period of development of the Central European… Read More Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš and Nikola Glamuzina (eds.) (2021): The Historical Geography of Croatia. Territorial Change and Cultural Landscapes. Springer: Cham.

Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until now been widely scattered. In The Commerce of Cartography, Mary Pedley presents a vivid picture of the costs and profits of the mapmaking industry in England and France, and reveals how the… Read More Mary Sponberg Pedley (2021): The Commerce of Cartography. Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. Chicago University Press: Chicago.

The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the “metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a point of tension.” Featuring numerous illustrations, The Mantle of… Read More Veronica della Dora (2021): The Mantle of the Earth. Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.