…the way that I move when responding to everything around me is described as “being in a world of my own”. Whereas if I … only react to a much more limited part of my surroundings people claim that I ...

“I’m not good at walking,” says the academic and author Noreen Masud. “And I’m not an expert or a geographer. I’m just a small, unfit, brown woman who finds a particular shape of land very absorbing!” ...

Though Masud never explicitly draws on this connection of wisdom-literature to the figure of the horizon, it represents a good way of thinking about the readings she gathers from the landscapes ...