He writes appreciatively about Fran- 
qois E. Matthes, of the U.S. Geological 
Survey, who surveyed the canyon 
eighty years ago. “He did it by plane ta- 
ble and transit, by foot and mule, by pa- 
tience and fortitude.” After the leader 
of the recent expedition, Bradford 
Washburn, an accomplished mountain- 
eer and explorer, had completed his cal- 
culations one day, he remarked, “It is 
surprising how closely the new data 
agrees with the older surveys of the 
Grand Canyon.” The helicopters and 
the distance finder certainly saved an 
enormous amount of hard work and 
time in this survey, but I am sure that 
the innovators will not be satisfied with 
this. The next development may be a 
completely automated surveying and 
mapping plant on an airplane, which 
will deliver finished and printed maps 
upon landing. In this scheme two im- 
portant things will be lost, the pride of 
workmanship and the role of judgment 
in map design. This is sometimes called 
Art and is unknown to computers and 
most engineers. Will we be smart 
enough to avoid this pitfall? 
The above review was written on the 
basis of an advance copy consisting of 
bound page proofs, without an index, 
illustrations, bibliography, or notes. A 
bound copy arrived too late to make 
changes but the following information 
may be useful. The book now has four- 
teen pages of bibliography and lists of 
persons interviewed arranged by chap- 
ters — a most impressive feature. There 
are a good many illustrations, intelli- 
gently selected but surprisingly uneven 
in quality. For example, a Landsat pho- 
tomosaic of New Jersey is sharp and 
clear, but the Landsat photomosaic of 
the entire United States is murky and 
almost unreadable. The first picture in 
the book, however, is a stunner of the 
author and a surveyor on top of an ex- 
tremely perilous pinnacle in Grand 
Canyon. Makes me shiver. 
There is one rather embarrassing er- 
ror: on page 299 it is reported that geol- 
ogist Bruce Heezen received the 
Buchler Medal from “The American 
Geographic Union.” On a hunch, I 
called the American Geophysical 
Union in Washington, and it is indeed 
this group that awarded Heezen this 
richly deserved medal. 
Richard Edes Harrison, who has been 
described as an “explanatory” cartogra- 
pher, is the first and only holder of the 
O.M. Miller Medal for Cartography and 
Geodesy awarded by the American Geo- 
graphical Society in 1968. 
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