A Quarantine Atlas Mapping Our Standstill Lives
Skift Take
The Quarantine Atlas and its 65 homemade renderings is a powerful chronicle of the collective pause we went through as a planet. What better way than through maps to remind the travel industry of what was lost, and how to chart a best, and hopeful, course forward.
In her new book "The Quarantine Atlas, Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19," Bloomberg CityLab journalist Laura Bliss sets out to explain when why maps mattered during the pandemic. It's a bit of irony that most of the world was kept from traveling and from ever really needing a map.
"What makes the book you're holding so valuable (is that it) documents a piece of the emotional turbulence of the world turning upside down. It presents 65 maps made by people living all over the world during the peaks
