New York (She's got the whole world in her hand)

After 3 weeks in the States I am still not out of the habit of walking past buildings with my eye level approx 40cm above ground level looking for benchmarks.  However, occasionally I look straight down and find them.

But sometimes the geo goodies are a tad easier to spot.  This is the Unisphere out at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

For one moment I had the whole world in my hand.  Fortunately I let go before I created havoc.

It's a great globe - with 3d topography.

And today we popped into the New York Public Library to view their Mercator 500 exhibition.  It was more of a display cabinet but its small nature was more than compensated by the magnificent map room in which it sat.


My ideal looking bookcase - atlases, globes and framed maps above.

My daughter loved this huge atlas.

A lovely globe.

Fascimiles of his early work.