Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald’s, among other things. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S.
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