TAURIS HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY SERIES

Series Editor: Robert Mayhew, University of Bristol

Editorial Board:

David Armitage, Harvard University.

Jeremy Black, Exeter University.

Laura Cameron, Queen’s University, Ontario.

Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Michael Heffernan, Nottingham University.

Nuala Johnson, Queen’s University, Belfast.

David Livingstone, Queen’s University, Belfast.

David Matless, Nottingham University.

Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary, University of London.

David Robinson, Syracuse University.

Charles Withers, Edinburgh University.

Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore.

Published and forthcoming in the Series:

1. Zambesi: David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa by Lawrence Dritsas
2. New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century by Simon Naylor and James R. Ryan (eds)
3. Scriptural Geography: Portraying the Holy Land by Edwin James Aiken
4. Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge by Innes M. Keighren
5. Enlightenment, Modernity and Science: Geographies of Scientific Culture and Improvement in Georgian England by Paul A. Elliot
6. Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in the Near East by Haim Goren
7. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens by Nuala C. Johnson
8. Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography’s Forgotten Past by William A. Koelsch
9. Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration by Huw Lewis-Jones
10. The First Mapping of America: The General Survey of British North America by Alex Johnson
11. Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine by Haim Goren, Jutta Faehndrich and Bruno Schelhaas
12. The Idea of Central Europe: Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity by Otilia Dhand