Geographical Fun
'Aleph', Scotland
1869
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William
Harvey (1796-1873), using the pseudonym 'Aleph', was the author of
Geographical Fun, a collection of lively and amusing caricature maps
with accompanying verses. The maps depict national stereotypes -
Scotland as a Scotsman in a kilt - and were intended to enliven the
study of geography for 'young scholars, who commonly think Globes
and Maps but wearisome aids to knowledge, by enabling them to retain
the outline of various countries so humorously caricatured in the
work, by associating them in their mind's eye with odd fancy
figures'.
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