Spatial Order

spatial order: organization of information using spatial clues such as top to bottom or left to right

"On the northern margin of the Alaska Range, just before the hulking ramparts of Mt. McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed. Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe fivemiles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder, thickets, and veins of scrwany spruce. Meandering through the tangled, rolling bottomland  is the Stampede Train, the route Chris McCandless followed into the wilderness."
                                                                                           -Into the Wild
                                                                                         by Jon Krakauer

Krakaeur describes the scene of McCandlass' last days and the surrounding area from out to in. He starts with the outermost landmarks and works his way to the center, where McCandless died. This provides the reader with a rough picture of the isolation of McCandless and what his last days would have been like. The reader is shown what the area looks like to better understand McCandless' situation.