An open atlas with luminous blue seas and a small folded paper boat rests against a deep blue background.

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Achieving the Impossible  ·  2010

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.

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Opening an atlas offers more than a view of borders and water. It starts the speaker imagining distant places and the lives of people there. The excitement lies in that movement from marks on a page to worlds that the reader wants to picture.

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