…is to help make geography a genre of aesthetic appreciation, like, for example, music. To do this, I cartographically illustrate the United States as the intricate garden of land, water and human habitation that it is.

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"The clarity with which this map conveys information is stunning." -Nik Schulz, West County Explorers Club

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Only professional cartographers will appreciate the enormous effort that went into this map; everyone else will like it for its combination of comprehensiveness and apparent simplicity...This one will remain a classic! -Stuart Allan, Raven Maps