The Peters World Atlas, New Internationalist, £19.95, ISBN 0954049950
WHEN Arno Peters published his world map in 1973, it was a revelation. We knew that all previous projections inflated the size of more northerly countries. Some made Greenland look as big as Africa, even though it is less than a tenth of its size. But Peters showed that you could turn the globe into a flat rectangular map without committing a gross act of cartographic colonialism.
It looked like a highly political act but, of course, it was really his predecessors whose maps were politically loaded. This volume, now out…
