John F. Shupe
Author of Historical Italy - 1995 [map]
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Works by John F. Shupe
Great Peoples of the Past: The Romans / The Roman Empire - 1997 [map] (1997) — Chief Cartographer — 15 copies
Great Peoples of the Past: The Mesoamericans / Ancient Mesoamerica - 1997 [map] (1997) — Chief Cartographer — 14 copies
The Making of Canada: Atlantic Canada - 1993 [map] (1993) — Chief Cartographer — 13 copies, 1 review
Millennium in Maps: Exploration / The Explorers - 1998 [map] (1998) — Chief Cartographer — 13 copies, 1 review
Heart of the Rockies [and] Above the Rockies Through Digital Eyes - 1995 [map] (1995) — Chief Cartographer — 12 copies, 1 review
The Earth's Fractured Surface [and] Living on the Edge - 1995 [map] (1995) — Chief Cartographer — 12 copies, 1 review
Great Peoples of the Past: The Mongols / Mongol Khans and Their Legacy - 1996 [map] (1996) — Chief Cartographer — 12 copies
Federal Lands in the Fifty States / United States, The Physical Landscape - 1996 [map] (1996) — Chief Cartographer — 10 copies, 1 review
North America in the Age of Dinosaurs / Dawn on the Delta - 1993 [map] (1993) — Chief Cartographer — 10 copies
The Making of Canada: British Columbia - 1992 [map] (1992) — Chief Cartographer — 10 copies, 1 review
The Shaping of a Continent: North America's Active West / Earth's Dynamic Crust - 1985 [map] (1985) — Associate Chief — 7 copies
Boston to Washington, circa 1830 [and] Boston to Washington Megalopolis [1994 map] (1994) — Chief Cartographer — 7 copies, 1 review
World Ocean Floors: Pacific Ocean / World Ocean Floors: Indian Ocean - 1992 [map] (1992) — Chief Cartographer — 6 copies, 1 review
South Asia with Afghanistan and Myanmar - 1997 [map] (1997) — Chief Cartographer — 6 copies, 1 review
The Making of Canada: The North [Yukon and Northwest Territories] - 1997 [map] (1997) — Chief Cartographer — 5 copies, 1 review
Amazonia: A World Resource at Risk / South America - 1992 [map] (1992) — Chief Cartographer — 5 copies, 1 review
Atlas update : a supplement to the National Geographic atlas of the world, sixth edition : [world map] (1995) — Chief Cartographer — 2 copies
THE POLITICAL WORLD (NG Feb 1994) — Chief Cartographer — 1 copy
World War II [map] 1 copy
Blueprints for Victory 1 copy
Associated Works
World Ocean Floor / The World - 1981 [map] (1981) — Associate chief cartographer — 9 copies, 1 review
The Peoples of China / The People's Republic of China - 1980 [map] (1980) — Associate chief cartographer — 9 copies
Tourist Islands of the West Indies / West Indies and Central America - 1981 [map] (1981) — Associate Chief Cartographer — 7 copies
Close-Up Canada: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories - 1979 [map] (1979) — Associate Chief Cartographer — 7 copies
Ireland and Northern Ireland: A Visitor's Guide - 1981 [map] (1981) — Associate chief cartographer — 5 copies
Indians of South America / Archaeology of South America - 1982 [map] (1982) — Associate chief cartographer — 5 copies
Visitor's Guide to the Aztec World / Mexico and Central America - 1980 (1980) — Associate Chief Cartographer — 5 copies
Close-up Canada: Quebec / Newfoundland - 1980 [map] (1980) — Associate chief cartographer — 5 copies
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- Shupe, John F.
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- cartographer
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- 50
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- 39
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- 427
- Popularity
- #57,179
- Rating
- 4.4
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- 5
If you had a dollar for everyone who has subscribed to National Geographic magazine sometime in their lives you probably could sit back, clip coupons and smoke cigars or eat bon-bons. I subscribed as well and they would accumulate and weigh a ton. I’d move, strip out the maps and donate, give away or somehow get rid of the magazines. A hundred or so NG magazines are a hernia producer when moving. Then I’d look at the maps and, while in an anti-clutter frenzy, dump them. Bang, bang, bang; the sound of my slapping my forehead.
Now, remorse has set in and I miss my NG maps. A while back I walked into my small suburban town library and they were cleaning house. Hard cover books were a buck, magazines were ten cents. The fates had smiled on me and I made a beeline for the sale area. There they were, NGs by the ton. I went through them checking for maps and bought every one that had a map and happily staggered home, read articles that interested me, stripped out the maps, gave away the mags.
As you might sniff out here, I love maps. Here comes the review…
I recognize that NG maps or other maps are not a book; to me they are an almost essential adjunct to books revolving around history, geology, geography and other topics.
National Geographic maps are known for quality. A curmudgeon might argue that they have declined in the past fifty years. Whatever! Do yourself a favor and acquire some NG maps. If you are reading about the history of European explorers in the Pacific, get the NG Pacific map… I had to write this in conjunction with a specific map and just happened to pick Quebec and here we are (if the other part of “we” ever shows up to read this).
They are high quality, information packed, well annotated maps. Not incidentally, the paper seems of high quality, which is helpful because of folding and unfolding and because they age well.… (more)