Mirages are not the same as illusions: they are, as it were, real hallucinations – authentic experiences of the eye.Wilkes had seen a cloud-mass which impeccably mimicked a land-mass, and in that sense his map had told the truth.
A dispassionate eye glancing at a map would have told you even then that Persia, sitting as a geographical pivot between the old Silk Road and the Arab world, could come to prevail.
From the Maggiolo Map, around 1527, the first to depict the New York region, to the city's computer-generated Nycmap, pictorial maps of New York have told as many stories as there are people who live there.
Here at the final protected area we are visiting on our journey, Bu Gia Map National Park, rangers have told us that slow lorises in this region might be killed, dried, ground up and mixed with rice wine or honey and used to treat stomach disease.
Monroe: Well I could have told you.
Both the police and the Secret Service — who had mapped out their sniper positions — had told him not to worry, but Wangro said that he'd be relying on Viola's guys, who, from their years with the Dead, knew concert protocol.
"I told her what the counselor had told me".
What connotations do maps have?
As maps have changed, so have mapmakers.
Most maps, including Google Maps, have not yet mapped the area.
