I must have got my love of maps from my father, who always seemed to disappear into them, spreading them across the carpet and tracing his finger across possible paths and tracks, across contours, jumping from location to location. He still has a collection of Ordnance Survey paper maps, and their designs jump to my eye as iconic covers in much the way …
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