8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world ... stretches would survive along the Caribbean coast and in Central America.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.

At this writing (the count is obsolete as soon as it is tallied), National Geographic cartographers have produced 438 supplement maps, ten world atlases, dozens of globes, about 3,000 maps for the ...

All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey, Betsy Mason & Greg Miller. National Geographic Books, 2018. Courtesy of National Geographic This excerpt is taken from National Geographic’s new book ...

Once this photolettering process was refined, it was applied to our United States map supplement in the May 1933 National Geographic. Shortly thereafter, Society cartographer Charles E.

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This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... endangered species diminished throughout the Caribbean. We found ourselves in a dense thicket, amazed as we ...