Google Map it!
One of the things I like to do when reading a book, especially one that is geographically descriptive, is to open Google Maps (GM) on one monitor while reading a book(s) on the other. Right now I'm reading through some histories of the Reformation. One book in this series, https://www.logos.com/product/10253/james-isaac-good-collection Rambles Round Reformed Lands, is very descriptive of Germany, Switzerland etc. So as I'm reading, James Good would mention the route he took along Lake Geneva, Lake Zurich or the inter-mountain regions that he traveled to visit historic reformed sites.
So with GM open I trace his route and sometimes it will give a street view of the area he mentions. What a way to bring a book alive. It's like being right there.
So if you have never tried it, try it. It will bring your study alive.
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Excellent tip!
Though being of the desert-ed variety of Logosians, I love topos, along with springs identified. In Europe, I presume distance-by-nightfall is the criticality.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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My sentiments exactly.
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