On most maps down is south, but most of the true places are up, or in the north.

perhaps he's ahead of his time and is thinking of those trick non-existent features that Google use to protect copyright.

True places are found through the journey of life; mapped up to heaven.

This quote is from chapter 12 in Herman Melville "Moby-Dick".
In Chapter 12, called Biographical, Queequeg, one of the principal characters, tells his friend Ishmael, the narrator of the book, about his live and his land.... :
" Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko,an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two. His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on the maternal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors. There was excellent blood in his veins—royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.

This book is One of the best books in literary world!!

Very true .

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