THE publication of this little text-book in Macmillan's Geographical Series will be welcomed by all who are interested in geographical education, or who desire a handly and trustworthy compendium on ...

W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is a keynote address delivered by the author at the Geography Workshop organised by the Organisation of Social Science Research in ...

Few countries rival South Africa’s diversity. From vast deserts and rugged mountain ranges to fertile coasts and tropical ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

University of Sheffield provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Johannesburg provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Knowledge matters ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

As the global community grapples with how to improve biodiversity conservation efforts, Indigenous communities around the world are demanding the process of conservation itself be decolonized. In this ...