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the account book of Capability Brown, now owned by the Royal Horticultural Society and kept in the Lindley Library, which lists 125 of his clients during the period of his greatest success between 1761 and 1783.
Roderick Floud • An Economic History of the English Garden
"We are each at the centre of our own map... We are all innate mapmakers... maps [are the] mediators between an in... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
The Atlas of Economic Complexity by @HarvardGrwthLab
atlas.hks.harvard.edu
After ‘a few years’ Patrick was able to return to his family. This is remarkable: how on Earth was a young man, stolen from his home at sixteen, able to navigate his way back in a country with no maps or road signs and not much more than local knowledge of place names?
Max Adams • The First Kingdom
David Liebermann
davidliebermann.de
Rheged exemplifies the challenges facing geographers hoping to draw neat boundaries around kingdoms whose extent was either never recorded or can only be inferred after later administrators fossilized their boundaries. If some of the earliest territorial lordships are associated with natural cultural corelands such as the drainage basins of fertile
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