A love of maps is every true traveler’s secret pleasure. As a correspondent in Africa, years before one could follow a path rendered by MapQuest or Google Earth, I came to love and rely on those ...
From afar, this bird’s eye view of Johannesburg looks like a satellite snapshot. But it’s not—it’s actually a massive, meticulously created mosaic. It contains thousands of fragments of stone and tile ...
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