Nothing is lost, it stays together if you want it wholeheartedly." The plot of Peng Shepherd's new book, The Cartographers, is made up of three elements - family, getting something and otherwise.
Like how the life of any person can be based on a lie and walk on it. It also adds a touch of the transformative nature of cartography and it is this aspect that takes the book from a gripping, fast paced thriller to the point where you'll want to take a break and think about re-reading it.
The specialty of Am 'the Cartographers is the discovery of what it means to make a map. Do surveys, measurements, designs and drawings of the map really have any effect on the terrain of which it is represented? Is it possible that the process of realizing the map does not change? How accurate can a map be? Because it is just a representation of the place and to what extent does it matter?
These questions are examined in depth in the book. It will make you think again about the power of paper maps; Especially in this era, maps made on electronic machines have taken over. Neil Young's hobby is making maps. Following in the footsteps of her father, she became the second Dr. Young, devoted to the study and return of historical maps to the New York Library.
Her career and her relationship with fellow cartographers are shattered in a heated argument with her father seven years earlier, over the authenticity of the three maps. He was dismissed and academically banned. Now she is confined to photoshopping 'watermarks' on prints of historical maps in 'Classic Maps & Atlas' in Brooklyn. Then one day his father is found dead in his library office.
Neil finds a 90-year-old mutilated map kept in a secret place in his father's desk. This roadmap for the gas station is one of the three maps that caused Neil to lose his job. The mystery deepens when Neil learns that this very rare and popular map has been declared 'missing, destroyed or stolen' by other institutions.
As Neil proceeds to investigate the case with his former friend and colleague Felix , he encounters one after another the members of a mysterious sinister organization called the Cartographers . All of them • Were friends of Neil's parents since their university days. To him, Neil was still a child. Shepherd occasionally refers to past memoirs from the perspective of many cartographers.
In the beginning the whole incident seems mysterious but as the facts unfold, it becomes clear that whatever happened that day or whatever Neil's father did, the motive was to keep Neil safe. The point of hiding a gas station map is whether anything engraved on the map becomes true. Neil gets caught up in a mysterious maze of dangerous events, as happened decades ago when his mother died.
Now Neil had to decide whether he should be under destiny, keep solving these mysteries, or change his fate. These cartographic friends never wanted to be separated from each other in life. This tragedy has been told in the book, how their deep relationship broke up and why?
'Dw Cartographers is a unique example of beautiful and skillful writing, which gives satisfaction to the reader. One of the characters in the story says- 'Nothing is lost, if you want to earnestly, then stays together.
