Cartographer

The stories were simply too outlandish to believe: accounts of a group of men and women called Caretakers, and an extraordinary place called the Archipelago, and of a singular personage the man had called the Cartographer, from whom the man had begun learning the art of mapmaking.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

The stories were simply too outlandish to believe: accounts of a group of men and women called Caretakers, and an extraordinary place called the Archipelago, and of a singular personage the man had called the Cartographer, from whom the man had begun learning the art of mapmaking.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

The stories were simply too outlandish to believe: accounts of a group of men and women called Caretakers, and an extraordinary place called the Archipelago, and of a singular personage the man had called the Cartographer, from whom the man had begun learning the art of mapmaking.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

Over the desk is a 17th c. map of the Great Lakes, Professor Nyalarthotep, a print of the Cartographer, which is, yes, a Magic Card but also makes me think of Palimpsest, and one of haikujaguar 's Balance Cards, the Paladin.

An Evening At Home yuki_onna 2008

So, to go towards another ongoing project on creativity and education, two particularly lovely books: Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education, edited by Joy Palmer and a wonderful book to dip into, and Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer by Peter Turchi, which is full of colour reproductions of some gorgeous and unusual maps.

Current Reads and New Books « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

The inclusion of Franklin was great fun, as was the full-circle introduction of Edmund McGee as a possible new Cartographer, fulfilling the early promise of his mapmaking family from the book I created with my brother, Lost Treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

If anything, Jack concluded, Edmund was better primed and prepared to become a Cartographer of imaginary lands than Merlin was.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

The greatest secret we knew was the identity of the Cartographer, and that was discovered.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

“The ones Bert and the Cartographer took out of the Geographica for safekeeping.”

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

It was possibly written by its maker, the Cartographer of Lost Places, but no Caretaker had ever asked, nor was the information ever volunteered.

The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010