INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT THEY PLAY A REALLY ACTIVE ROLE IN MAKING THE WORLD HAPPEN. FROM ...
"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.