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If you're jaded by GPS, if you think maps are mere representations of reality, The Cartographers would like a word with you. These savants, who mastered the arts of scale and legend at the University ...

Before the GPS and smart phones made finding directions easier, paper maps provided the way, promising not only accuracy but also pinpointing unfamiliar places, bits of history and roads less traveled ...

Nell Young has lived with maps her entire life, first as the only child of eminent cartographers and later as an expert in cartography herself. Even so, Nell doesn’t realize just how magical maps can ...

Multiverses capture the thrill of seeing a single life dilated into countless permutations. Picture Superman having to choose between versions of the Daily Planet building from six different universes ...

Elissa Nadworny speaks to Peng Shepherd about her new book, "The Cartographers," where the daughter of a murdered map scholar unravels the mystery of a map she finds hidden in his desk. A cartographer ...

As a child, Peng Shepherd loved studying the maps while her mom drove. “My mom didn’t need it because she knew where she was going – it was our hometown,” Shepherd recalls, “But I’d take the maps out ...

Nell Young has lived with maps her entire life, first as the only child of eminent cartographers and later as an expert in cartography herself. Even so, Nell doesn't realize just how magical maps can ...

Author Peng Shepherd talks with host J.T. Ellison about her thriller THE CARTOGRAPHERS. “I couldn't stop thinking about what more could happen with that error, that secret, what if it became real?” ...

Nell Young has lived with maps her entire life, first as the only child of eminent cartographers and later as an expert in cartography herself. Even so, Nell doesn't realize just how magical maps can ...