The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France

The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France by Tom Conley
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
392 pp., illus. 98 b/w. 
ISBN 978-0-8166-7448-0.
The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science and Culture by SueEllen Campbell
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2011
334 pp. 
ISBN 978-0-520-26926-2; ISBN 978-0-520-26927-9.

'The self-made map approach to writing of the 16th Century, created for the first time a spatiality of narrative, a form that was perfected not in the 19th Century novel but through the development of narrative in 20th Century cinema, a subject about which the author is also a recognised contributor.
Conley's book is an engrossing read because to this reader, so much was new and expressed in such fulsome and scholarly detail.' (pub. Leonardo Digital Reviews)