MAGIC Exhibits: The English Patient

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Images from the Map Collection
Often, while browsing the Collection, one stumbles across maps that relate so strongly to the world that they deserve to be shared. Maps of places in literature have always been exciting. From Misty of Chincoteague's Chincoteague Island and Paddington Bear's Paddington Station to Hornblower's near scrape off the Isle d'Ouessant. Recently, while moving a backlog of maps to be cataloged, this map sheet surfaced. It relates so closely to Michael Ondaatje The English Patient that whether or not it was used by the author, it brings the story to life.

The map series, Africa. 1:250,000 was compiled and zincographed at the Survey Office, Khartoum in Nov. 1933. It is Sheet 45-A of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan area, the Dongola Sheet.

Area of Rock Drawings

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