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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-10022659663X

ISBN-139780226596631

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038625017

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Book TitleWriter's Map : an Atlas of Imaginary Lands

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCartography, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Technology & Engineering

AuthorHuw Lewis-Jones

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight52.1 Oz

Item Length11.8 in

Item Width8.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-017933

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsWe've hit the jackpot with The Writer's Map . It's a delightful collection of all sorts of literary maps . . . The art is the star here, pages and pages of every sort of map you can imagine, reproduced on oversized pages to delight and confound the viewer with their detail and imaginative depictions of a three-dimensional world reduced to two., Lewis-Jones has assembled a team of writers and illustrators and asked them to explain in personal terms what maps mean to them, how their love of the things came about and how maps figure in their own work., Gathers intelligently charming meditations from writers and festoons them with map after map after map after map of imaginary, and sometimes non-imaginary, lands. (Only after several days of staring at the beautifully reproduced images did I force myself to read the words, but I am glad I finally did.) I am so enamored of this book that I bitterly resent what takes me away from it, whether that be the need to eat, or sleep, or write this review., [For] the admirer of beautifully designed books often discovered in childhood and never left behind. . . . the quintessential coffee-table book., This handsome tome is a pure expression of that love [of maps] and of the interplay between magical prose and imaginary cartography. Sumptuous maps of notable fantasy worlds jostle for space alongside essays from fantasy writers. The Writer's Map charts the landscapes of literary imagination with passion and care., In an age when paper maps feel obsolete, this book by Huw Lewis-Jones is a journey through imaginary worlds., A visual feast. . . . Offers an enchanting look at the world around us, and the worlds we imagine., Gorgeously designed. . . This delightful, engrossing exploration is for every reader who's ever admired a book or a map, let alone both., Lewis-Jones's beautifully produced compendium takes in everything from Utopia, charted for Thomas More's satire of 1516, to Westeros, a continent in that swords-and-sorcery series Game of Thrones. It shows how writers of the past created worlds that have inspired writers of the present, from Joanne Harris to Robert Macfarlane. It's a reminder that a map is far more than a means of plotting a route. Like a book, it can transport you. It can work magic., A beautiful book. . . . Lewis-Jones has crafted an incredible love letter to invention, place, and the art of the map., One of life's great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered. . . . The Writer's Map contains dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn or that have been made by others to illustrate the places they've created., The Writer's Map allows readers to tour worlds created by some of literature's greatest storytellers. The beautiful book features a full-color collection of magical maps imagined by a range of authors, from classic novelist Rudyard Kipling to contemporary children's author Abi Elphinstone. When compiled together, these maps compose 'a curious, creative gathering' any explorer is bound to enjoy., This is a wonderfully illustrated book that one could spend hours just looking at the maps contained. The maps are of fictional places as well as a plentitude of maps from before the 1600s, when 'factual maps' were often drawn by cartographers that were listening to the tales of mariners and explorers and the maps were then as reliable as the tales. This is an excellent addition to the literature., It deserves saying up front: this is a beautiful book . If you run a map library, you should have it in your collection; if you read fiction and are interested in maps, you will find a lot in it to explore.

Dewey Decimal809.93372

Table Of ContentPROLOGUE A PLAUSIBLE POSSIBLE: Razkavia Realized PHILIP PULLMAN PART ONE - MAKE BELIEVE THE LITTLE THINGS: Mapping Memories HUW LEWIS-JONES IN FABLED LANDS: Literary Geographies HUW LEWIS-JONES AND BRIAN SIBLEY PART TWO - WRITING MAPS FIRST STEPS: Our Neverlands CRESSIDA COWELL OFF THE GRID: Treasured Islands ROBERT MACFARLANE THOSE WHO WANDER: Moominvalley and Beyond FRANCES HARDINGE REBUILDING ASGARD: A Viking Worldview JOANNE HARRIS IMAGINARY CARTOGRAPHY: Mordor to Mappa Mundi DAVID MITCHELL TO KNOW THE DARK: With Scott and Kircher KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE THE WILD BEYOND: Walking in the Woods PIERS TORDAY REAL IN MY HEAD: Adventures on Castle Key HELEN MOSS BEYOND THE BLUE DOOR: Routes through Narnia ABI ELPHINSTONE PART THREE - CREATING MAPS MISCHIEF MANAGED: The Marauder's Map MIRAPHORA MINA UNCHARTED TERRITORY: A Middle-Earth Mapmaker DANIEL REEVE CONNECTING CONTOURS: Carta Marina and More REIF LARSEN A WILD FARRAGO: Far-Off Fantasies RUSS NICHOLSON THE CYCLE OF STORIES: Early Earth and Faerie ISABEL GREENBERG NO BOY SCOUT: With Swallows and Amazons ROLAND CHAMBERS SYMBOLS AND SIGNS: On Crusoe and Others CORALIE BICKFORD-SMITH HALF THOUGHTS: Clangers and Noggin PETER FIRMIN PART FOUR - READING MAPS FOREIGN FANTASY: Dungeons and Dragons LEV GROSSMAN BY A WOMAN'S HAND: Cartographically Curious SANDI TOKSVIG LANDSCAPE OF THE BODY: Interior Journeys BRIAN SELZNICK EXPLORING UNKNOWNS: Terra Incognita HUW LEWIS-JONES ENVOI NEVER FORGET: The Beauty of Books CHRIS RIDDELL CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FURTHER READING SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX

SynopsisIt'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.

Prologue byPullman, Philip

LC Classification NumberPN56.I44W758 2018