This copy of Mercator's World includes articles on:  Moreira's Manuscript - A newly discovered Portuguese map of the world made in Japan;  The Portuguese Century - The magnificent Fernao Vaz Durado atlases;  Catching The (Continental) Drift - Cartographic contributions to the theory of plate tectonics;  Going For Gold - How misleading maps lured prospectors to the Klondike;  Maps, Metaphor and Memory - Anthropomorphic cartography; and Out of the Atlas and Into the Ordinary - a celebration of map ephemera.

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