Just finished Andrea Barrett’s Servants of the Map—a great collection of stories following the lives of scientists, explorers, thinkers and tinkers and all those who love them or are loved by them. As always, Barrett writes as eloquently about two hundred years ago as she does about twenty years ago. The common thread is that her characters share an innate curiosity about life and living things, about how this world we inhabit was formed–both in a scientific and emotional sense.
Sharing characters with Ship Fever and Voyage of the Narwhal, Barrett weaves together these stories, which present us with a beautiful quilt of exploration and discovery.
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