Description
He brushed away a stray bee, and upturned the pouch over his palm. A piece of paper fell out.
"What's that?" said Con. "A letter?"
It was a sheet of paper from the blank end pages of a book, marked in ink and labeled with neat block capitals. In the corner there was a sketch of the points of a compass.
"It's a map," he said.
Goose bumps rose on his arms. Fred knew the power of maps. They gestured to hidden things. They were line drawings of the world's secrets.
-from THE EXPLORER
SBN:9781481419451
