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The Writer's Map - An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
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The Writer's Map - An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
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It's one of the first things we discover as children, reading and
drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands
on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know
an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with
beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer's Map is an atlas of
the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made
throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not
only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps
that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing,
and others that simply sparked their curiosity. Philip Pullman
recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of
his early novels, The Tin Princess. Miraphora Mina recalls the
creative challenge of drawing up "The Marauder's Map" for the Harry
Potter films. David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of
Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. Robert Macfarlane reflects on
the cartophilia that has informed his evocative nature writing,
which was set off by Robert Louis Stevenson and his map of Treasure
Island. Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of
the universe. Reif Larsen writes about our dependence on GPS and
the impulse to map our experience. Daniel Reeve describes drawing
maps and charts for The Hobbit film trilogy. This exquisitely
crafted and illustrated atlas explores these and so many more of
the maps writers create and are inspired by--some real, some
imagined--in both words and images. Amid a cornucopia of 167
full-color images, we find here maps of the world as envisaged in
medieval times, as well as maps of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy,
nursery rhymes, literary classics, and collectible comics. An
enchanting visual and verbal journey, The Writer's Map will be
irresistible for lovers of maps, literature, and memories--and
anyone prone to flights of the imagination.
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