Julian Montgomery
@jmontgomery
Edinburgh, UK
Author Biography
Author of three serials on modern cartography and psychological exile. Former maritime archivist based in Edinburgh.
"We do not travel to find landscapes, but to see what our silence looks like against unfamiliar stone."
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Creative Non-Fiction4.9
The Cartographer of Lost Ships
Following the trail of 19th-century naval surveyor Robert MacIntyre, who deliberately drew nonexistent shoals on nautical charts to prevent whaling vessels from entering sacred Hebridean sanctuaries.
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Personal Narratives4.9
The Long Apprenticeship
Seven years spent in a small letterpress workshop in the backstreets of Leith, learning the physical weight of lead type, the behavior of Dutch inks, and the disappearing discipline of setting words by hand.