Servants of the Map (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrea Barrett
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Plot: Historical, epistolary
- Time of Work: 1863-1864
- Setting: The Himalayan Mountains, Tibet
- Principal Characters: Max Vigne, Clara, Dima
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Self, Nineteenth century, Asia or Asians, England or English people, Fear, Adultery, Loneliness, Separation, Mountains, Boredom, Mountaineering, Survival, Tibet or Tibetan people, Maps
- Locales: Tibet
The Story
“Servants of the Map” consists mostly of letters that Max Vigne, a young surveyor with a British mapping party in the Himalayan Mountains, writes to his wife, Clara, in England. However, there are many things that he does not describe to her—the hardships, the physical discomfort, the exhaustion, and the loneliness. Nor does he tell of his being mocked by the older, more experienced men, who laugh at his pale blond appearance, his books, and a trunk of letters that his wife has written and given to him before he left, each of which are to be opened on certain...
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