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Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-BoazRussell Hoban; Bloomsbury Pub Ltd 2000WorldCatLibraryThingGoogle BooksBookFinder 

Jachin-Boaz traded in maps. He bought and sold maps, and some, of certain kinds for special uses, he made or had others make for him. That had been his father’s trade, and the walls of the shop that had been his father’s were hung with glazed blue oceans, green swamps and grasslands, brown and orange mountains delicately shaded. Maps of towns and plains he sold, and other maps made to order. He would sell a young man a map that showed where a particular girl might be found at difference hours of the day. He sold husband maps and wife maps. He sold maps to poets that showed where thoughts of power and clarity had come to other poets. He sold well-digging maps. He sold vision-and-miracle maps to holy men, sickness and accident maps to physicians, money-and-jewel maps to thieves, and thief maps to the police.