On reading maps badly
A map is a claim about the world, not the world.
Notes on maps, deserts, and walking slowly.
This is a small notebook. I keep it mostly for myself — short entries about places I have walked through, books that stayed with me, and the occasional thing I learned the hard way.
A map is a claim about the world, not the world.
Everything in dry country reduces to sums you would rather not do.
Thesiger for the austerity, Chatwin for the restlessness, and one I cannot name.