Critical geography is on the up, and consciously political world maps like
the Peters projection are becoming more popular. In The Myth of Continents: A
Critique of Metageography, Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen argue that the whole
idea of continents is bogus. Published by the University of California Press,
£15.95/$19.95, ISBN 0520207432.
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