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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Conrad steamed up the Congo himself in 1890 and Marlow's journey retraces his own. The places are never named in the book, but they map onto a real route: from the Company's Outer Station at Matadi on the lower river, overland past the cataracts to the Central Station at Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), and on up the great bend to the Inner Station near Stanley Falls (now Kisangani). The bbox spans that whole run.
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Built around a real event: the 1894 attempt to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Conrad walks his anarchists across a London he names honestly, from Verloc's shabby shop in Soho to the Embassy in Belgravia, and the Observatory is still standing. The bomb, the park, and Greenwich are exact; the street names around the shop and the Embassy are invented, which is what the labels are for.
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