Book Review: The Cartographer’s Coloring Book

The Cartographer’s Coloring Book, by Terre N. Reliffe, Feaux•Afield Guides (www.feauxafieldguides.com), 2018, 41 pages, $11.95

Following in the footsteps of The Synesthesia Activity Book, 2016’s break-out adult coloring book, Feaux•Afield Guides is back with an exciting new activity book for GIS junkies, The Cartographer’s Coloring Book.

If you are an adherent to coloring inside the lines, look no further – you can rack up some soothing exercise as you change altitude from the comfort of your own home with nothing but a crayon! Make your own watershed moment with the Wetlands and Watercolors of the U.S. watercolor-by-numbers exercises. Or try your hand at ending the drought by connecting the dots of any blue-line streams to turn ephemeral creeks into perennial streams. By simply following the signature curves of each topographic line, you can bring the landscape to life. Is it a hill? Is it a dale? You decide!

 

But nowhere is the marriage of maps and arts and crafts more celebrated than Feaux•Afield’s centerpiece, a centerfold-out quadrangle maze that allows you to challenge your friends to see who can finish the labyrinth in 7½ minutes or less! And when you are done, make sure to rock-paper-scissors to see who gets to re-fold that very same 72-panel centerfold map in as much time. For those of you old enough to remember AAA road-maps, you can relive your family vacations all over again!

This activity book, which elevates cartography to a higher plane, is sure to make your cartographic comrades G – I – S – jealous. The Cartographer’s Coloring Book is slated to hit bookshelves April 1st.

 

{APRIL FOOLS DAY POST 2018}