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Hand-drawn map of Turkiye (David Cook) (europe.pub)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

i think this is the first occidental map i've ever seen

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Seems like the artist is basing it on this 1943 map by Richard Edes Harrison, which is from an atlas full of unusual perspectives that was aiming to illustrate WWII geopolitics for an American audience. Cook has a reddit post about it but the links are all broken now, so I'm not 100% certain that it's this one, but it seems likely

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