Georgia Map Office


		With a few exceptions, most books about Georgia tend to focus on vestiges of natural beauty and places of historic interest. But they ignore what lies in between. They elevate the exceptional at the expense of the ordinary. And we are left with a portrait of a Georgia that no one can recognize and that we rarely see except in the pages of a book. We are looking for a different Georgia, not the Georgia of school-books with its Brown Thrasher and Cherokee Rose, and not the Georgia of the Chamber of Commerce with its friendly towns poised for the future, but a Georgia as defined by lines and geometries and placenames. We are looking for the ordinary landscapes in which we all live, the cities and towns, roads and rivers, the landscape as we encounter it today. We are looking for a geography with a capacity for wonder, a geography with a sensitivity and a reverence for place.