Maps, like landscapes, are full of facts and meanings, many of which need more than the eye of the casual reader to discern and interpret. This small volume examines the representation of Mexico (or, more accurately, certain parts of Mexico) via several stages of its cartographic history. The seven chapters take the reader from prehispanic lienzos to atlases of the 1990s. The first surprise for the reader is the fact that the selection of maps reproduced in the book are not indexed and are located together after the bibliography at p. 205, necessitating the major inconvenience of constant moves fore and aft. Furthermore, having examined the first of the almost illegible maps, the reader may soon give up such a task. The maps reproduced are simply too small to be read—even with a magnifying glass—and since in many cases their color content is a key characteristic, most data are lost....

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