From Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin. (Bantam, 2013). Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc. This map would also be a useful reference for readers of Neal Stephenson's 'ecothriller' Zodiac, in which the catastrophe at Toms River appears in a fictional guise. Fagin's book is a real-life thriller, particularly for those of use who have spent summers swimming in these waters.
For The Last Forest: The Amazon in the Age of Globalization, by Mark London & Brian Kelly (Random House 2007). Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc. At first this looked to be a routine adaptation of one of our archived travel maps, until we found that many of the requested labels did not appear on standard reference maps. Online research soon revealed that these were usually places where some social or ecological atrocity had occurred, precise locations to be deduced from written descriptions.
Overview map for America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich (Random House, 2016). Copyright© Andrew J. Bacevich.
Competing claims to the South China Sea, from Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific, by Robert D. Kaplan (Random House, 2014. Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc.
From Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror, © Mahmoud Mamdani (Doubleday, 2009). Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc.
From Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope, by Gail Sheehy (Random House, 2003). Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc. Sheehy explores the effects of 9/11 on a New Jersey town that lost nearly fifty residents to the terrorist attack..
The Iranian Plateau, from The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century, by Robert D. Kaplan (Random House, 1996). Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc. A prescient view of regions that have become more volatile since the book's publication.
Key Issues at Dayton (colorized), from To End a War, by Richard Holbrooke (Random House, 1998). Maps Copyright © David Lindroth Inc.
Map of Belize from The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird, by Bruce Barcott (Random House, 2007). Map copyright © David Lindroth Inc.
From Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother, by Sonia Nazario (Random House, 2006). Map Copyright © David Lindroth Inc.
Detail from classroom poster entitled United States Diversity: The Census Is a Portrait of the Entire Country, a joint project of the Census Bureau and Scholastic Inc. Copyright © Scholastic 2010.