Two Maps,
One Landscape

A collection of stories on cartography, reclassification, and what persists

Dave

with Claude (Anthropic)

Front Matter

• — A Note on This Book Collaboration, sources, language, dedication.

Prologue & Framing

• — The Cartographer's Legend Monterey Bay, 1602, 1769, and now. A teaching story on maps, perception, and the archaeology of simulation.
• — Reading the Old Layer Theory, method, and a guide to the stories in this collection.

The Stories

• 1 Sholol of Limuw The kelp forest of Santa Cruz Island, and a fish who grows up.
• 2 Wito of Limuw Two cormorants nesting on the cliffs of the channel.
• 3 Limuw Three young people from three corners of the island, the autumn acorn harvest, and a structure rising on the hill.
• 4 Five Crossings The channel, the ridge, the isthmus, the canyon route, and the threshold between two worlds.
• 5 Nunašiš A testimony from the foundation of the world. The lower world, below the reef.
• 6 鰲峰 Áo Fēng A mountain south of Fuzhou, 10th-century Fujian. A Hakka ritual priest, a Song-dynasty observer, and a very old frog.
• 7 'Alkulaš A story from the Santa Barbara Channel. The swordfish-people and the whale drive.
• 8 Temblor East Salinas, a Mixtec family in diaspora, and what a word cannot translate.
• 9 Syuxtun Two 'antap elders on the bluff above Santa Barbara, a bead in a pocket, and the North Star watching.
• 10 Tucutnut The Carmel River, the Rumsen village, and the mission's ledger.
• 11 Momoy The Datura Grandmother and the long night of the winter solstice.
• 12 Hetspah Mission Santa Barbara, February 1824, and the walk east.

Afterword

• — Thank You for Making This Journey A closing word, and an invitation.

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