Imagine being able to create interactive memory maps - maps of weather, natural physical features, man-made elements, and people for any date and time. Sophie Tims' Uncle Shadrach is able to do this and begins instructing her in the craft. The year is 1891 and almost a century ago the Great Disruption - a time glitch, threw all continents into different time periods, from prehistory to the far future. Brave explorers risked life and limb to explore these vast altered lands and the fine art of mapmaking, a mixture of science and magic, recorded their discoveries. Sophie's parents were two such explorers and failed to return from their last trip. Now that the Boston Parliament has passed a law ejecting all foreigners and requiring official documentation for all entering or leaving the city, Sophie and her Uncle Shadrach feel compelled to find her parents. Before they set off on their journey, however, Shadrach is kidnapped and their home is ransacked. Sophie finds a note from Shadrach telling her to go to Veressa. The housekeeper, Mrs. Clay, tells Sophie that Veressa was Shadrach's love at the college in the Baldlands. Luckily a strange feather boy from the circus, Theo, agrees to accompany her to the Baldlands. Shadrach's kidnapper wants the Carta Mayor, a living map of the world, a map that possibly could be manipulated to change history, present and future events. Does this map exist? This is an exciting, action-packed new series sure to appeal to fantasy fanatics and adventure lovers alike.
"The cartographer transforms the material into a legible, comprehensible document."
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