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Category Archives: Maps
Mapping Fiction
Loren Latker, “Shamus Town” The Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Los Angeles, the Wonder City of America, 2014. Map, 39 3/4 x 26 1/2 in. © Loren Latker, 2021. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. I have always been … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Libraries, Maps, Museums
Tagged Dante Alighieri, Fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien, Octavia Butler, Robert Louis Stevenson
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No Direction Home
Amsterdam-based Austrian graphic designer Philipp Doringer’s obsession with Bob Dylan has resulted in the “Atlas Of No Direction Home”, a cartographic gazetteer of all the locations relevant to Bob Dylan’s career. The book contains all the locations relevant to Bob … Continue reading
Thanksgiving : The Real Deal
Today is the much loved and misunderstood holiday of Thanksgiving here in the former colonies. I can testify that the U.S. school systems almost always get it wrong when it comes to educating children about the historical roots of the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Maps, USA, Writing
Tagged Native Americans, New England, Pilgrims
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Night Moves
Many decades ago, when I first visited Europe it was possible to travel all over the continent by night train. As a low budget, backpacker, I often used night trains to save the cost of overnight accomodations by traveling at … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Maps, Public Transport, Tourism
Tagged night trains, Nightjet, Train Travel, Trains and Railroads
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Maps explain everything (almost)
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware that I am an insufferable map nerd. When I travel, I still insist on carrying multiple paper maps along with the usual digital map apps and downloaded maps to my travel destinations … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, History, Maps, Middle East, Public Transport, USA
Tagged Cartography, Rome, Vikings
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Six for Sunday
After reading Moby-Dick for the first time last year, Peter Gorman published a fascinating book called Kaleidoscope Brain that consists of 100 visualizations of Moby-Dick. The graphics, diagrams, and maps were his way of making sense of the iconic American … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Europe, Film, Hotels, Maps, Photography, Uncategorized, USA, Writing
Tagged Cartoons, Comics, James Baldwin, John Donne
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A Very Special Atlas
The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. The entire volume was printed without ink, the text … Continue reading
Treasures from the Library
One month from today, the New York Public Library will be launching its first ever permanent exhibition. Treasures will offer rotating highlights from the NYPL’s collection of 56 million items spanning 4,000 years of history. For more than 125 years, The New … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Books, History, Libraries, Maps, Museums, Photography, Tourism, USA
Tagged New York City, NYPL
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We Are Here
In case it may have slipped your notice, I have a bit of a thing for New Zealand, or Aotearoa as the Māori people call it. I recently stumbled upon We Are Here which is an atlas of Aotearoa – … Continue reading
Maps of States
MAPS OF STATES Terrance Hayes A map indicating the state of the union may Yield the statues, static & statutes of grave White men while a map indicating disrepair may Yield colorful groundbreakers uprooting graves. A map indicating the … Continue reading
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