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04Essays
The Cartographer’s Apology
Every map is an argument about what matters.
Written by Rosalind Ferrier
Nine essays on maps and the people who drew them, and on the quiet violence of deciding which villages are large enough to name.
Ferrier is interested less in what maps get wrong than in what they were built to be confident about. She takes the same interest in museums, indexes, and the word 'neutral'.
- Published
- 9 September 2025
- Extent
- 212 pages
- Format
- Paperback, sewn
- ISBN
- 978-1-9998-0144-3
Contents
- iOn being large enough to name
- iiThe confident blank
- iiiScale, and who pays for it
- ivAn apology, with contours
Notices
Ferrier argues with objects, and the objects lose.
The Paper Review
About Rosalind Ferrier
Rosalind Ferrier has written seven books of essays on the things institutions treat as settled: indexes, wall labels, borders, the standard metre.
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