i got it on a road trip last month during a stop at the museum of civil war medicine. across from the museum there was an alley with a sign that said "the map man" and i walked into the shop and there was a man and dusty maps. he was examining a promotional leaflet from a kazakh mall in 1992
i asked for a map of russia because i am writing a novel that begins in tsarist russia and he had this. he showed me a newspaper clipping from twenty years earlier about his shop
Hey @swordsjew.bsky.social I happened to pick this used book up earlier this year for reference purposes. Let me know if I can send you info from it. If it would help you
Some of the coolest stuff can be found when you're somewhere new and take a moment to act on the "well, I'm already here, might as well wander around" impulse.
We were pulling into the Carroll Creek parking garage tonight when my wife got hit by a bout of trigeminal neuralgia. As we were exiting, I saw The Map Man sign and thought, “Oh! I heard about that today!”
(My wife took some medication and is feeling better.)
As a Finn, I find it hard to find anything beautiful in this, reminder of a brutal occupation and colonial empire. Historically interesting maybe, beautiful no.
That's so interesting. I've just committed to reading War and Peace in a read along group next year - a chapter a day - so I'm interested in Russia all of a sudden (even though this is quite a lot later than the book is set).
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Some of the coolest stuff can be found when you're somewhere new and take a moment to act on the "well, I'm already here, might as well wander around" impulse.
(My wife took some medication and is feeling better.)
> Saratof
The old transliterations were way more fun
Intrigue and romance at the dawn of the 20th Century?
Census agents dueling with maddened Cossack descendants to defend the work on the Trans-Siberian Railway?
I thought you would enjoy this!
https://books.google.com/books?id=31GKokvE4KcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=31GKokvE4KcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=century%20atlas&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false