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He set it in London for reasons topographical — ”I needed a city that was on an island so it would be completely cut off” — and historic — ”in homage to Shakespeare.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Even small details—a brochure for a luxury yacht and a topographical map of Panama—illustrate the kind of granular research he pursued to ground his characters in later novels, such as “The Night Manager.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

To explain how flat the mirrors are, Dr Frank Rohmund, president of semiconductor manufacturing optics at Zeiss, uses a topographical analogy.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024

The study also incorporates modern topographical data collected by satellites.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

A Les Miserables poster was nailed to the wall behind Andrews next to a topographical map of the U.S.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini