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The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands Hardcover – Illustrated, Oct. 11 2018

by Philip Pullman (Contributor), Huw Lewis-Jones (Editor)
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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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    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
  4. Publication date
    Oct. 11 2018
  5. Dimensions
    20.96 x 3.05 x 29.85 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    022659663X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0226596631
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"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." ― Weekly Standard

"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 Mapcontains dozens of the magical maps writers have drawn or that have been made by others to illustrate the places they’ve created."

― Atlas Obscura

"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 Mapcharts the landscapes of literary imagination with passion and care." ― NPR

"Gorgeously designed. . .This delightful, engrossing exploration is for every reader who's ever admired a book or a map, let alone both." ― Shelf Awareness

"Fascinating." ― Financial Times

"Nothing less than a writer’s love letter to the map." ― Tor.com

"[For]the admirer of beautifully designed books often discovered in childhood and never left behind. . . . the quintessential coffee-table book." ― Chicago Tribune

"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." ― Telegraph

"Will delight the most devoted bibliophile." ― Globe and Mail

"We’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." -- Charles de Lint ― Fantasy & Science Fiction

"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." ― Wall Street Journal

"A beautiful book. . . .Lewis-Jones has crafted an incredible love letter to invention, place, and the art of the map." ― Zocalo Public Square

“A visual feast. . . . Offers an enchanting look at the world around us, and the worlds we imagine.” ― Fine Books Magazine

"The Writer’s Mapallows 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 authorAbi Elphinstone. When compiled together, these maps compose 'a curious, creative gathering' any explorer is bound to enjoy." ― My Modern Met

"In an age when paper maps feel obsolete,this bookby Huw Lewis-Jones is a journey through imaginary worlds." ― OZY

"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." -- Nat Case ― Cartographic Perspectives

"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." ― Mythlore

About the Author

Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian of exploration with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was formerly curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, and the National Maritime Museum, London. His books include Arctic, Ocean Portraits, In Search of theSouth Pole, The Conquest of Everest, The Crossing of Antarctica, and Across the Arctic Ocean. Most recently, he is also coauthor of the internationally bestselling Explorers’ Sketchbooks.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Oct. 11 2018
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 022659663X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226596631
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.49 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.96 x 3.05 x 29.85 cm
  • 鶹 Rank: #166,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 out of 5 stars 596 ratings

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    Dr Huw Lewis-Jones is an award-winning author, teacher, and seafarer. He lives in Cornwall. Huw also travels across the Arctic and Antarctica each year working as an expedition leader. Twitter news @polarworld

    A best-selling author of history and photography books, Huw's titles include 'The Writer's Map', 'The Sea Journal', 'Arctic', 'Ocean Portraits', 'In Search of the South Pole', 'The Lifeboat', 'Mountain Heroes' - which won Adventure Book of the Year at the World ITB Awards in Germany - and 'The Conquest of Everest', winner of the History Award at the Banff Festival. To date, his books have been published in 18 languages.

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    Piers Torday is an award-winning and best-selling children's writer. Books include The Last Wild, The Dark Wild, The Wild Beyond, The Wild Before, There May Be a Castle, The Lost Magician, The Frozen Sea, with the latest one, Midnight Treasure, out in September 2024. His work has been translated into 14 languages.

    Plays include The Box of Delights (Wilton’s/RSC), Christmas Carol, The Child in the Snow and The Wind in the Wilton’s (Wilton’s Music Hall.) His book There May Be a Castle has been adapted for the stage by the Little Angel Theatre.

    The son of Paul Torday (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), he completed his father’s final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl and co-founded the Paul Torday Memorial Prize for Debut Novelists over 60, now in its sixth and final year.

    Piers is also Chair of the Society of Authors Sustainability Steering Committee, a trustee of The Unicorn Theatre, Patron of Shrewsbury Book Fest and an Artistic Associate at Wilton’s Music Hall.

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  • Sean Cullen
    5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful work of art
    Reviewed in Canada on March 27, 2022
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    5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating
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  • Luke Szpytka
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as expected
    Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2020
    I actually took this book out of the library first to do a test run. I was pretty excited to see which maps/books were in it. However, not many that I was familiar with so not willing to dish out the cash for it.

    That's not to see it's not a nice book. It is. Just not sure how many people out there are familiar with the selected works.
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  • John D. Cofield
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Feast For The Mind And Eye
    Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2018
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    Maps have been one of my life-long delights. I learned the US states from a puzzle map I was given at age 5, pored over a map of Europe on the cover of one of my third grade notebooks, and always jumped at the chance to read any book that featured maps of real or imagined lands on its end papers. When I had some free time I often doodled maps with elaborate coastlines and rugged mountain ranges. Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones must have had a childhood similar to mine, because in The Writer's Map he has produced a compendium calculated to delight everyone who has ever felt a tingle upon seeing the phrases "Here be dragons" or "Terra Incognita." The Writer's Map is a visual and mental feast.

    There are twenty five beautifully written essays by such authors as Philip Pullman, Frances Hardinge, Brian Sibley, and Isabel Greenberg, illustrators like Miraphora Mina, Russ Nicholson, and Peter Firmin, and artists whose works cannot be assigned to one medium like Daniel Reeve, the cartographer who produced the maps used in The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies. Each essay is sumptuously adorned with maps, ranging from medieval efforts through twentieth century atlases. The most beautiful and appealing of these maps are those produced as part of literary works, primarily though not entirely "children's literature" including works by J.M. Barrie, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien,L. Frank Baum, and Kenneth Grahame. There are beautiful depictions of "Fairyland" from the 1920s as well as detailed examinations of J.K.Rowling's Marauder's Map, G.R.R. Martin's Westeros, and Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea. Every page has something to catch the eye and intrigue the imagination.

    The Writer's Map is a gem no biblio- and carto-phile can afford to be without.
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  • EM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very beautiful book (very old fashioned)
    Reviewed in Australia on July 9, 2022
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    This book cover is so beautiful, as well as the illustrations inside. I’m quite happy with this purchase and think it’s probably best described as a coffee table book. The book arrived undamaged and promptly with free delivery (it only took one day).
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  • Sebastian Blumberg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastische Bilder
    Reviewed in Germany on March 18, 2021
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    Genau was ich gesucht hatte: Ein Inspirationsgeber zum Erschaffen eigener Landkarten, der viele verschiedene Stilrichtungen hochwertig abbildet und die Fantasie beflügelt. Einfach schön!
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  • UncleFepster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Un livre magnifique
    Reviewed in France on June 19, 2024
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    Un merveilleux livre qui fait voyager.
    Il existe également en français.
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  • Sibi Mathews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every pennny
    Reviewed in India on January 23, 2021
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    It's truly an exceptional book to have it part of my home library. Unfortunately it was not the 1st edition and it was made in China.
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