Cartographer's Companion

Are you perhaps feeling that the life of a cartographer is not for you?

Six months since you last saw a cup of tea, four since you ran out of quinine. Have you lost your wife to burly slave traders? Have you lost your porters to desertion? Are you, in fact, now, a one-man expedition, the last of your donkeys sitting idly in your stomach, perhaps regretting your choice of the solid brass theodolite, the mahogany-cased compass, and the tripod-mounted telescope, as you make your back-broken way up yet another impassable pass?

Well, don't you feel like a tit.

No such hard luck for our boys and girls in the Royal Trigonometric Survey as they trot the globe freely thanks to the Mk1 Cartographic Companion!

You'll never have to worry about an aching arm with the Cartographic Companion's ingenious miniature theodolite and compass! And with all the porters you'll have spare, why not pack a few extra home comforts to keep Herself contented?

And there's more! As you hike the brisk mountaintops and fertile river valleys of the orient you need never worry about losing your way again; the Cartographic Companion makes use of centuries of oriental cartographic know-how with its handy scrolling watercolour panoramas. Simply twizzle the nuts for almost three feet of sumptuous Song-Dynasty shoreline (alternative alliterations available).

*Made for my girlfriend's Steampunk Cartographer outfit. Concept taken from 1920s wrist-watch style maps.