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Title	:	The Tattooed Map
Author	:	Barbara Hodgson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1995 by Chronicle Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Travel. Art. Mystery. Magical Realism

The Tattooed Map

Barbara Hodgson

Hardcover | Pages: 120 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 1112 Users | 102 Reviews

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At one time, Lydia and Christopher were lovers as well as travel companions; now they are merely fellow travelers. While on a trip to Morocco, Lydia notices a small mark on her hand which begins to grow and spread in thin, tattooed lines that only she can see. Eventually, the marks reveal themselves to be a detailed map of an unknown land, and Lydia begins to understand that these marks, invisible to all but herself and a mysterious Moroccan man named Layesh, will lead her on a strange and perilous journey. The Tattooed Map is Lydia's journal of the days and weeks leading up to her disappearance. Each page contains her daily experiences--her growing shock and fear as the map unfolds itself, her deteriorating relationship with Christopher, her conversations with strangers--as well as the memorabilia she collects along the way: maps and postcards, train tickets and postage stamps, lists of books she's reading and souvenirs she's bought--all pasted in the margins of the journal.

When Lydia disappears midway through the journey, her friend Christopher takes up the journal, using it first as a means of recording his search for her and then, increasingly, as a clue to her fate. A combination travelogue, mystery, and ghost story, The Tattooed Map is a mesmerizing, physically beautiful book. Each page is gloriously decorated with the kinds of fascinating flotsam and jetsam that travelers find cluttering their pockets and notebooks at the end of a trip, making The Tattooed Map a book you'll want to return to again and again.

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Original Title:	The Tattooed Map
ISBN:	0811808173 (ISBN13: 9780811808170)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.76 From 1112 Users | 102 Reviews

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This book reminds me a lot of the "Griffin and Sabine" books, what with its beautiful drawings, maps, photographs, and icons all over the thick, glossy white pages. The story even has a twist that sucks you in and captivates your imagination.The book relates the story of Christopher and Lydia, once lovers but now comfortable and compatible traveling companions. Both are well-versed at obscure travel, travel that doesn't include a Hyatt or Hilton at the end of the trail, and this book takes us

I have no idea how this book got on my to-read shelf in the first place, and I thought it was totally weird while I was reading it, but I keep thinking of people I need to tell to read it, so that must mean that I liked it. This is an example of the genre of book that pretends to be a diary that you have found, and you must puzzle over it to get the meeting. The surface-level story is of a couple traveling through North Africa together. I enjoyed the story very much on that level. It made me

This is a strange little book written as a travel journal, first by Lydia then by Chris, as they tour around part of Europe and Northern Africa where events take a turn for the mysterious as Lydia disappears after writing of a map that gradually appears on her arm, a map that Chris does not see either in the flesh or in her pictures. Following her disappearance, the journal is taken up by Chris and talks of his search for her and his attempts at solving the mystery of her disappearance. While

One of the oddest books I've ever read. Strange, visually beautiful, intriguing, and utterly unsatisfying. But somehow also appropriately itself. More travel journal than novel, it is filled with luscious descriptions of Moroccan towns, and so much lovely Arabic in the margins. I wonder if I could get away with writing a book like this -- a book that is an unfinished love letter to travel, and mystery, and the potential of unfinished stories (and the unfinished journeys of which they tell). What

An unusual and intriguing book. I feel it falls short of its true potential and should this have brought to market in 2017, it would have been a spectacular object d'art. Arguably this novel is 20 years ahead of its reprographic era. A fascinating multimedia adventure that weaves a gentle story of life, love, and loss.

Written as fictional travel journal to Morocco, The Tattooed Map is a visually remarkable novel that evokes the spirit of The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy. The detailed, primary documents (library cards, colorful stamps, snippets of notes written in French, Arabic and English) that grace the pages, along with the mysterious connections between characters across time, are delightful.But this book failed to hook me in like the Griffin & Sabine Trilogy. The beginning of the book reads like a

This book was recommended by artist teacher Diane Ericson in advance of a creative retreat on mapping. It is a visual delight with small pieces, inserts, images in a travel journal format. Curious tale loaded with layers of meaning. I read it twice and will probably read it a third time.