Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: Bruce MacNeill
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 05:55 PM

A quick search tells me that Northwestern University has a terrific set of maps from 1650 on that you can zoom in on and then print, like zoom in on a country and print it in fair detail, the get another country etc. Of course, the countries aren't what they were when I was in school which was shortly after 1650, so there are a lot of different maps. It looks like a good resource anyway.

Africa maps

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: Bruce MacNeill
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 05:43 PM

Susan, this may be a dumb question but regardless of your monitor, do you have a decent printer? If so, can't you get what you want from Google Maps, at least as far as what is there now? I would have thought that the Internet, between Wiki and other encyclopedia sites would have more maps available than any single book or book store.

Subject: RE: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 05:25 PM

Music?

Subject: Let's Do Africa-- Map Helps Please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 05:18 PM

Woven into a lot of the old-style (euro-dominated) message about Africa was Africa's supposed un-knowability. Yet the audiobook I am in right now has a LOT of well-researched info ranging (so far) from archaeological to historical, and probably beyond. What I lack is a good set of maps (pre-history to present) that I can laminate for study-- while doing this audbook in the water.

If I had a bookful of such maps I'd rip out the pages and laminate. I don;t even know what book I might want-- no decent real bookstore in our usual range, no budget for purchasing things I can't pick up and look at to evaluate.

If I had a better monitor I'd see what I want online and print that, to laminate.

Lacking these, I hope for Mudcat help and, preferably, a study partner as interested in Africa as I am. I plan to spend the whole winter on this, so I am not in a rush, except that right now I have ZERO and I'm far enough in the book to realize I can't get much farther till I have a decent set of maps. And I want to GET GOING! Cuz it's really interesting.

Anyone wanna join me?

~Susan

(I've posted elsewhere here about my general study plan.)