“ He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps.I win. Ilona Andrews
“ Although his log entries do not speak of America per se, a chart created by Admiral Zheng was used to make a detailed map of the world. A copy of this map, drawn in 1763, was found in a second-hand bo… Captain Hank Bracker "The Exciting Story of Cuba"
“ The Sabians were allowed to build a new Temple of the Moon God, and to continue their religious rites, after the Arab General Ibn Ghanam conquered Harran in the seventh century AD. This in itself is a… Graham Hancock
“ As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles. Sara Sheridan
“ The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. Roseanne Barr
“ Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. Gilles Deleuze
“ Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, ou… Alexander McCall Smith
“ I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am. Tony Horwitz
