I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can’t do it at all."
— Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Quotations
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“Geographers never get lost. They just do accidental field work.”
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- Virginia Tech ImagebaseVirginia Tech's collection of historic Virginia maps.
- David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionThe digital collection contains more than 125,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from around 1550 to the present.
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- Old Maps OnlineSearch for maps in libraries around the world.
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