![]() She has a gift for sifting through history pulling out the human element. Where others see maps and facts and stacks of information, Jean Fritz (born in 1915) sees the woven thread of humanity connecting it all. The further we rewind time, the more we can see the delicate choreography of maps as borders shift, fluidly, pushed and pulled by the passage of time, by conflict, by wars, by revolutions, and - oh yes, - by individual people. And when we go back in time, maps change. As Jean Fritz knew, life is hidden in the stories - in the buzzing, humming swirl of life happening under each dot on the map. But life, of course, isn’t found in geography or topography or any other cartographical term. ![]() ![]() Maps are part of me, as a third culture kid who lived in three countries and two continents by the age of eight. My love for maps borders on obsession (pun intended). ![]()
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