Maps – Simon Burrow

Lost in Melville

SimonMarch 15, 20240

“It is not down in any map; true places never are." Herman Melville Melville who wrote Moby Dick among...

SimonDecember 22, 20230

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA “The joy of map reading has been swallowed whole into the maw of GPS...

SimonAugust 11, 20221

Provenance Noun: A record of ownership of a work of art or an antique, used as a guide to authenticity. Also the...

Politics

SimonOctober 28, 20211

Cadastral Adjective: A type of map used to show ownership of land, especially for taxation. Example: "The...

SimonNovember 19, 20190

On Friday night November 1 I went down to ASU to see the reopening of the Imagined Borders map exhibit at the School of...

SimonNovember 1, 20192

I was a map collector. In 2012 I donated the collection to The School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State...

SimonAugust 12, 20120

A website that I have touted before is Bridge Hunter. It is a user developed guide to the historic and interesting...

Politics

SimonJune 22, 20123

So here is the math. Romney will probably get roughly the same number of votes as John McCain did in 2008 but he will...

Simon Says

SimonApril 30, 20120

Lake Avenue is one of the major streets in Pasadena. Before the revival of Old Pasadena it was also the main shopping...

SimonMarch 10, 20120

The opening of the map exhibit at CECUT in Tijuana last Friday was wonderful. Carlos Garcia, Armando Orso, Simon...

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