Hey there, y’all, it’s me, Lancer Vang, and I’m back with more books from my dusty bookshelf. Let’s talk about maps… and mapmaking……
Category: Book Review
10.25.2025
Book Reviews: The Dusty Bookshelf
Every point of the Earth is the center of its own horizon.” Roger Bacon, an early advocate of the scientific method, said that…
11.02.2024
Book Review: The Measure of the Man
American surveyors are heirs to an enviable abundance of surveying history and lore that has accrued over the centuries of North America’s political…
08.24.2024
Book Review: Temenos: The Design and Experience of Urbanism as Spiritual Path
Urban planners and land surveyors are natural enemies, or so it seems when we surveyors struggle to accommodate Byzantine zoning regulations and arbitrary…
01.29.2024
Book Review: William A. Richards: Diaries of a Frontier Surveyor in Nebraska and Wyoming
This reviewer shall initiate this book review by ‘returning’ to a Wyoming secondary school in 1958 (an arbitrary date sentimental to the reviewer)….
03.03.2020
Book Review: Putting California on the Map
Von Schmidt’s Lines
By David Carle | Phalarope Press ISBN-13: 978-1987736434 ISBN-10: 1987736435 208 pp Land Surveying has a very rich history in these United States…
02.15.2018
Book Review: Boundary Retracement: Processes and Procedures by Donald A. Wilson, PS
CRC Press, 2017 (475 pages, e-book and hardcover)
When I was in my mid-twenties and learning the honorable profession of land surveying, I was lucky to be guided by a mentor…
07.22.2017
Book Review: Patrick Chura’s Thoreau The Land Surveyor
A 192Kb PDF of this article as it appeared in the magazine—complete with images—is available by clicking HERE
