“ 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
“ 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
“ 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 More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, ou… Alexander McCall Smith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
“ You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and f… Terry Pratchett
“ Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in yo… Cormac McCarthy
“ A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. Rebecca Solnit
“ That old man over thereIs selling trinkets made of stonesThat old woman the entire worldIn a map without any hole! Avijeet Das
“ If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and mind, the city will reveal itself to you. Maybe it won't become yours, but you will become its - its chro… Rebecca Solnit
“ The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of towns, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact,… Beryl Markham
“ Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly knowing its history, its systems, and the people who are different from you and who mo… Rebecca Solnit
