GLIMPSE issue 8, "Cartography," presents perspectives on the history and human experience of mapping, at varying scales. This issue considers how the symbolic definition of real and imagined boundaries expressed in maps, may both expand and constrain human understanding.

CONTENTS

Selected Dates in European, Islamic and Chinese Cartography
by Esther Howe with Meghan O’Reilly and Connie Wang

Atlas Vertebra
by Arto Vaun

Borrowed Borders: Cartographic leverage from empires to zip codes
by Mark Monmonier

Narrative Cartographies: Creating an atlas as a novel
by Elbie Bentley

From Sextant to SatNav: Building a 3-D map of the human heart with supplementary multimedia illustrations
by Katherine Fletcher, Peter Kohl and Denis Noble

RetroSpect: A Map of the Open Country of Woman’s Heart...
by Georgia B. Barnhill

Losing And Finding Our Way: A conversation about cognitive mapping and orientation with neuroscientist Giuseppe Iaria
by Rachel Sapin with introduction by Carolyn Arcabascio

Reorganizing Space, Negotiating Identity: The use of placenames in ordinary conversation
by Lisa Gabbert

The Literary Terrain of Mark Twain and the Mississippi
by Rachel Sapin

Many Rivers and Kara’s Wave
by Matthew Cusick

Cartography and Humanism: Concordances and discordances
by Yi-Fu Tuan

(Re)views
by Meghan O’Reilly

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