Many of the maps in our collections were made for, or about, travel. And even now in an age when we increasingly use satnavs or GPS to find our way, a map that you can hold in your hands has its own charm. A recent Bodleian book, Adventures in maps, uses some of these to tell the stories of 20 different journeys, on foot, horseback, train, car, sailing ship and spacecraft. They include early sea charts and explorers’ maps, as well as maps marketed when travel became more widespread and commercial. The chart below shows mariners’ routes across the Southern Ocean, many of them following the traditional ‘Clipper route’ devised in the seventeenth century to take advantage of the most favourable winds.
Manuel Ruiz Robles |
El 50 Aniversario de la UMD nos trae el recuerdo del fervor republicano de aquellos años, borrado de nuestra memoria militar por una jefatura del Estado y de las Fuerzas Armadas que sigue recayendo en una casta de reyes inviolables, impuesta por el dictador genocida Franco, impunes aunque delincan.
El famoso lema de la Transición, “de la Ley a la Ley”, validó de este modo la legitimidad del golpe del 18 de julio de 1936, la guerra de exterminio que le siguió, apoyada por las potencias nazi-fascistas, y una criminal dictadura de casi cuarenta años, santificada por el Vaticano y el imperialismo de los USA.