In anticipation of the project, Rick and I have both been reading a book called Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts. I have particularly enjoyed the section on the use of SatNavs and how information for SatNavs are determined by the US military and a company in Belgium.
This struck a chord with me because a while ago I visited a military museum in Chatham in Kent and saw information about the Ordnance Survey maps which were originally devised by the British military. I love the feel of Ordnance maps.
The notion of the Thames Estuary seems very appropriate to the ideas in Edgelands as it is hard to put into any category as a piece of land.
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