Book reviews

The New Nature of Maps. Essays in the History of Cartography. By John Brian Harley, edited by Paul Laxton, introduction by J. H. Andrews. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8018-65662. Pp. xv, 331, illus. STG $45.00/UK £30.50 (cloth). Plantejaments i objectius d'una historia universal de la cartografia/Approaches and Challenges in a Worldwide History of Cartography. By David Woodward, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Cordell D. K. Yee. Cicle de conferències sobre Història de la Cartografía, 11è curs. Barcelona: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, 2001. ISBN 84-393-5433-9. Pp. 353, illus. Euros 15.02 (paper). [L'Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Parc de Montjuïc, 08038, Barcelona.] Reality as Representation: The Semiotics of Cartography and the Generation of Meaning. By Emanuela Casti, translated by Jeremy Scott. Bergamo: Bergamo University Press, 2000. ISBN 88-87445-05-2. Pp. 216, illus. Euros 14.98 (paper). Seeing through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. By Ward L. Kaiser and Denis Wood. Amherst, MA: ODT, Inc, 2001. ISBN 1-931057-00-1. Pp. 152, illus. US $19.95 (paper). [ODT, Inc. P.O. Box 134, Amherst, MA, USA 01004.] The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observation: Mapping Art and Science. By Susan Bender and Ian Berry, with Bernard Possidente and Richard Wilkinson. Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2001. ISBN 0-9708790-1-6. Pp. 96, illus [Available through Distributed Art Publishers, 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd floor, NY, NY 10013.] Voir la terre. Six essais sur le paysage et la géographie. By Jean-Marc Besse. Arles: Artes Sud / ENSP / Centre du Paysage, 2000. ISBN 2-7427-2828-7. Pp. 162, illus. Euros 18.14 (paper). Segni e sogni della terra: il disegno del mondo dal mito di Atlante alla geografía delle reti. [Signs and Dreams of the Earth: Representing the World from the Myth of Atlas to the Geography of Networks.] Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 2001. ISBN 88-415-9901-4. Pp. 286, illus. Euros 25.82 (paper), . The Hereford Map: A Transcription and Translation of the legends with Commentary. By Scott D. Westrem. Terrarum Orbis: History of the Representation of Space in Text and Image 1, edited by Patrick Gamier Dalché. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001. ISBN 2-503-51056-6. Pp. lxvii, 476, illus. Euros 55.00 (cloth). [Brepols Publishers NV, Begijnhof 67, B-2300 Turnhout, Belgium. Internet: .] Münchner