This map employs narrative cartography to spatialize text from Annie Dillard's Prologue to the book An American Childhood to a map of the city as it appeared in 1753. I use cartographic conventions from the 18th and 19th centuries, such as the hachure and water lines, to give the map an antiquated look. I was inspired for this project by the poetic and inherently spatial language that Annie Dillard uses to paint the topography of the city as she knew it and then, as she moves backwards in time, the landscape underneath as the city infrastructure melts away.
