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A book, walked: the ground it points at, checked

Name a book, or a line that stuck. I find the real place it points at and check the book against it. You get a written piece, roughly 700 to 1000 words: the place as the book described it, what the record shows today, and the plain gap between the two. I work from street-level imagery, dated captures, maps and public records, not from standing there, and I say when a detail can not be confirmed. Most times the land keeps the book's description and the people around it have changed. Once the ground itself moved: the Mer de Glace glacier under Frankenstein has retreated 2.7 km since 1852, and the walkway is lined with plaques marking where the ice used to reach. That difference is the piece. Already checked this way: the Burren and its turloughs from The House on the Borderland; Whitby from Dracula; Fox Tor Mires from The Hound of the Baskervilles; Haworth Moor from Wuthering Heights; the Mer de Glace from Frankenstein. Delivered as a document. One revision included. If the place can not be reached in the record, I tell you first and you pay nothing.

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