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Hickman's Hinterlands

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A ledger of obscure travels, backwoods rambles, rough bivouacs, and cackling cartographies.

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About A.M. Hickman

Itinerant geographer from the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. Incorrigibly anachronistic, comforted by isolated places and foul weather. Always cackling.

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