Much as a child's drawing of a neighborhood reflects his attitude toward the surroundines and his

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own place in them, so a society's map of its geographical setting reveals, often in the same unconscious way, something of its sense of position in the world. The. cartography of the physical world is a cartography of the mind.
The Chinese, for example, from ancient times have depicted their country as the "Middle Kingdom," surrounded bv assorted "barbarian" lands, wh...