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2000s: Some places you won’t find on any maps. Others, are only on maps . . .
The Cartographers
What you need to know before your trail
Nell Young hasn’t spoken to her father, the world-respected cartographer Dr. Daniel Young, in years – but this morning he was found dead in his office at the New York Public Library.
When they last met, Dr Young fired Nell after an argument over a seemingly worthless mass-produced highway map. Now every copy of this map is being found and destroyed . . .
To find out why, Nell will embark on a dangerous journey into the heart of a conspiracy beyond belief, discovering her family’s darkest secrets and the true power that lies in maps . . .
Locations
Reset- America/USA - New York State
- A: New York City - New York Public Library
- B: New York City - Brooklyn Library
- C: New York City - Doyers St
- D: Algoe
Travel Guide
Agloe and the idea of phantom settlements
Agloe was the brainchild of two men: Otto Lindberg and Ernest Alpens from America’s General Drafting Company. They were commissioned to make a map of New York state in the 1930s. But this was the time where map making on any grand scale was in its infancy so they went about thinking of a way they could make maps but not go to all that work, only to have their competitors steal their work.
So they decided to draw something on their maps that did not exist in real life – a place that only they knew about – a place they invented and drew on the map. They used the initials of their names to create this ‘paper town’ – Agloe – which they dropped into a dirt road intersection in the Catskills.
The map in the book leads the characters to this fake/real town but they can only visit it if they are holding the map with Agloe on it….
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Cartographers
Destination/Location: New York, New York City, Agloe Author: Peng Shepherd Departure: 2000s
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