Down East Touts ‘Historical Atlas of Maine’

The August 2105 issue of Down East magazine describes the recently published “Historical Atlas of Maine,” as a sophisticated, accessible book that “visualizes everything you never realized you wanted to know about Maine history.” The atlas is the brainchild of the late Burton Hatlen, a former University of Maine professor of English. The 208-page book, packed with 367 original maps, 112 original charts and 248 other images, was edited by UMaine historian Richard Judd and UMaine geographer Stephen Hornsby, with cartography by Michael Hermann. “It’s a cartographic time machine chock full of eye candy … chronicling the cultural, geographic, environmental, and economic factors that shaped the Pine Tree State,” reads the introduction of the two-page spread.