Assembling the world in an image: 15 of history’s most revealing maps - CNN.com
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On the Road – Cartographers are truly a strange breed. Most of us spend a great deal of time traveling, sketching the land and cityscapes in our little notebooks, and generally wishing we spent more of our time on the road. For my money Jack Kerouac’s novel captures that spirit of cartography in ways that even many maps cannot and to see that he actually graphically traced out the route of his more narrative journey, makes On the Road a real mapmakers book. Over the decades many readers of the novel have sat down and drawn for themselves the path of the exploits by Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity as they criss-crossed America in search of adventure and self-discovery. Kerouac’s hand drawn map is both a fictional plan for his writing and a real journey that he himself would make. What map isn’t a blending of both?
