[caption id="attachment_772" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Off to the fields, Pumamarka (2011) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] When I think of maps I imagine back to when the first human made their first…[...]
Two weeks ago I wrote about the evidence showing contact between China and Africa long before the Portuguese sailed around the tip of Africa and into the Indian Ocean. More…[...]
[caption id="attachment_1972" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Woodland trail, Yukon, Canada (2009) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] Ray Bradbury died this week and as a science fiction and fantasy writer, his was some of…[...]
[caption id="attachment_1826" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A Portuguese ship off the Algarve. Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I’ve spent much of this blog writing about the great European mapmaking tradition and the exploration…[...]
[caption id="attachment_1931" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Cypress tree, Northern Everglades (2012) Photo (C) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I’ve written earlier about the way maps are used to convey information about our world and how…[...]
[caption id="attachment_1553" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Himalaya Monastery outpost (2000) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] The other day I was reminded of something that seems intrinsic to human beings—the need to go where…[...]
[caption id="attachment_1931" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Cypress tree, Northern Everglades (2012) Photo (C) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I’m currently working on two pieces of writing. One is the third novel in the Terra Trilogy…[...]
[caption id="attachment_1907" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="The nieces who never really cared if we were lost as long as we had fun.(2012) Photo (c) Karen Abrahamson"][/caption] I wrote earlier about how maps…[...]
So I’m here at Disney World with my sister and nieces. Yesterday we visited the Magic Kingdom and of course had to orienteer our way around the park with the…[...]
I'm thrilled to announce that book two of the Terra Trilogy is now available in e-book and the print publication will be available in May. In the years after the…[...]