The Last Great Cartographic Myth
Mer de l’Ouest
2022 Updated Edition
Donald L. McGuirk
with additions and enhancements by
Daniel “daan” Strebe
and Web application by
Musashi Strebe
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794768-8-4
ISBN: 0-9794768-8-7
Copyright © 2011 — 2021 by Donald L. McGuirk
Copyright © 2021 – 2023 by Daniel R. Strebe
Originally published in 2011 by MapRecord Publications, Cambridge, Massachusetts, as an electronic book.
Republished here in 2020 by Mapthematics LLC as a courtesy to the author in order to preserve and disseminate this research.
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