Old Italian Map of the Pacific Ocean by Baratta, 1922: steamship routes, post-WWI borders, De Agostini world port insets missouri river The map's focus on land

The map's focus on land use and vegetation provides a unique perspective on North America

representing the remains of a pre-Columbian Native American city

the map shows the location of several castles and manor houses

along with Brick Lane and Shoreditch

The map shown here is sheet B2

Old Italian Map of the Pacific Ocean by Baratta, 1922: steamship routes, post-WWI borders, De Agostini world port insets missouri river The map's focus on landOceano Pacifico, composed in 1922 by the Italian geographer Mario Baratta, presents the worlds largest ocean as the organizing stage for modern commerce and power. Issued by the Istituto Geografico De Agostini of Novarathe house that, after its 1919 acquisition, burst onto the international scene with its first great atlas in 1922this chart distills the geopolitical aftermath of the Great War into a lucid, oceancentered view. Continents are arrayed as