The Last Blank Map

di Julián Almara (Autore)

Julián Almara, 2026

In Paris in 1889, cartographer Gabriel Lenoir discovers a problem hidden in plain sight: the maps of West Africa do not agree. Rivers shift, routes contradict one another, and a great mountain range appears with an authority that the underlying evidence cannot justify. The Mountains of Kong have been reproduced on European maps for decades. But what happens when a line copied often enough becomes more credible than the land itself? Drawn into an investigation that leads from archives and drafting tables to the roads of West Africa, Gabriel must learn that maps are not made from measurements alone. They are shaped by travellers' accounts, commercial routes, political ambitions, translation, memory, and the decisions of the people who decide which evidence deserves to become a line. Alongside Issa Diabaté and those whose knowledge rarely reaches the official map, Gabriel confronts the distance between what has been observed, what has been reported, and what has simply been copied. The Last Blank Map is a historical novel inspired by the real cartographic history of the Mountains of Kong, a mountain range that appeared on maps of West Africa for much of the nineteenth century despite not existing as depicted. A novel about exploration, evidence, power, and the dangerous authority of a map that everyone has learned to trust.

• Autore: Julián Almara
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Julián Almara
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237120622