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Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cengage Learning Simon Garfield examines how mapsWhen a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three headed dog guarding a