title: You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
author:  Katharine Harmon 
description: Into this seemingly lighthearted 7" 10" look into people's love affairs with maps and mapmaking, Harmon packs some serious intellectual concepts about the human impulse to locate itself in the cosmos. Under the loose and expandable categories of "Personal Geography," "At Home in the World" and "Realms of Fantasy," Harmon presents 50 four-color and 50 b&w cartographical illustrations, including Professor Eugene Turner's smily and frowny faces placed on a map of Los Angeles convey data on the unemployment rates, urban stress and racial composition of individual neighborhoods, putting substantive research in a down-to-earth guise. Ellsworth Kelly's "Fields on a Map (Meschers, Gironde)" pulls an abstract pastoral out of a real place, while Kisaburo Ohara makes an octopus-like Russia seem vividly frightening in "A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia." Kim Dingle's collection of variously erroneous maps of the United States drawn by American students are equally thought provoking. Harmon has cannily selected a variety of essays, humorous, personal, analytical: e.g., Bridget Booher's chronological "map" of every injustice done to her body, Roger Sheffer's absorbing analysis of the little maps drawn in the registers of shelters along the Appalachian Trail, and Hugh Brogan's professorial elegy for the fantastical maps that used to be printed in Arthur Ransome's children's books. Purists may dislike the way that illustrations of various maps are not linked directly to the texts; others may find it refreshing, much like the kind of map that makes you expect a new and alluring surprise around every corner. Harmon's intricate and thoughtful selections do indeed prove her point that mapmaking is as diverse and extraordinary a human act as any other. <BR>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  The Mapweaver Chronicles: Scroll II
  
    
  
    
  
  Kaitlin Bellamy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
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  Copyright © 2018 by Kaitlin Bellamy
  
  All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this
  
  book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written
  
  permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,
  
  places, events and incidents either are the product of the author’s
  imagination
  
  or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
  
  events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  First Edition: December 2018
  
    
  
    
  
  Map by Glen Bellamy. Learn more about his work at www.glenbellamy.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  For every artist, creator, and child of imagination.
  
  You have your own unique magic. May you find a way to use it.
  
  And for Dad, the man who taught me to believe in mi