On the Map by Simon Garfield – review | Books | The Guardian
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On the Map by Simon Garfield – review
Rachel Hewitt on a rollicking journey through the history of cartography
The Guardian, Friday 19 October 2012 22.55 BST
On 9 October 1965, Yale University released to public view a map that caused a media frenzy “akin to the detonation of a small bomb”. The so-called Vinland map was a crude creation on vellum, 27.8cm high by 41cm wide, with a vertical fold through the middle, a few worm holes, and purporting to date from the mid-15th century. What was so devastating about the map? It showed a “startlingly accurate” representation of “Vinland” (Wineland) – the name given by the Vikings to North America – including part of Newfoundland or Labrador: “almost certainly the result of original exploration”.
