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The resulting pictorial space is complicated and suggestive: simultaneously cartographical, microscopic and celestial.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

What follows will be a cartographical examination of marriage, sorrow and madness as carefully plotted as the map the novel begins with.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Sometimes I spend 10 minutes pottering around; other times it’s four hours of intense, self-directed cartographical research missions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2020

Nor are the subtlety and empathy that underlie this judgment absent when Brotton, venturing beyond his home territory of the Renaissance, comes to explore the cartographical expanses of the middle ages.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012

Mr. A. J. Hodgeman is responsible for the cartographical work, which occupied his time for many months.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir