mapping world classics

Honey it's cold outside!

Best to snuggle up with some great reads.

Tik-Tok of Oz, L. Frank Baum, Chicago, 1914

On our on going book lovers book worming adventures - Charting the Geography of Classic Literature by Anika Burgess at Atlas Obscura.

These are just a few of over 60 maps that are currently on display at the exhibition Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration, at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

The collection includes the work of landmark authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and the late Ursula K. Le Guin, and spans everything from love stories to fairy tales.

The exhibition is open through to April 14, 2018.

love! Love! LOVE! 

charting hell

This post is not about the road to hell, paved with good intentions or otherwise.

Neither is it a commentary on our current state of affairs worldwide, hellacious as many of our world leaders have turned into. 

No. No No. No. 

Here we pay homage to all the charts created throughout the ages to map Dante's individual circles of Hell. 

Presented via Atlas Obscura - a tortured topography of torment by some of our world renowned artists . 

Michelangelo Caetani's cross-section of Hell, 1855

vanishing borders & boundaries

If you are curious to see what peaceful, free, and open European borders look like check out Valerio Vincenzo's award-winning project, Borderline, the Frontiers of Peace. 

With the help of GPS and detailed maps, Vincenzo has explored dozens of free and open 
borders among 26 European countries that share over 16,500 kilometers of peaceful 
borders. 

Visit his project page.