A book from The Journey

The Atlas of Wandering Words

Every word has a passport.

One hundred words, ten chapters, and the routes that carried language through kitchens, markets, empires, mistakes, and love. The web archive made the journeys visible. The book lets them become an object.

100

word plates

10

chapters

228

planned pages

The first edition

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Cover proof for The Atlas of Wandering Words

Inside the atlas

A story on the left. A route on the right.

Every plate begins with a surviving relic: a bottle, a seed, a clerical mistake, a person whose name came loose. The facing map shows the pressure that moved the word and what changed along the way.

Orange word plate from The Atlas of Wandering Words
Sample plate · orange
Cha word plate from The Atlas of Wandering Words
Sample plate · cha
Vanilla word plate from The Atlas of Wandering Words
Sample plate · vanilla

The ten chapters

The forces that make words travel

  1. 01Appetite Is a Map
  2. 02The Market Has a Memory
  3. 03Nothing Learned to Count
  4. 04The New World Enters the Mouth
  5. 05The Bottle Keeps the Place
  6. 06The Gods Took Ordinary Jobs
  7. 07The Name Outlives the Owner
  8. 08The Error Stays
  9. 09Modernity Borrows Japanese
  10. 10Love Is Not One Word
The whole weather of the book, showing all one hundred word routes
The whole weather of the book: one hundred routes drawn together.

The word arrives changed. So does the reader.

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