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.
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..
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.
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.
Daniel Reeve describes drawing maps and charts for The Hobbit film trilogy.
Reif Larsen writes about our dependence on GPS and the impulse to map our experience.
Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of the universe.
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 .
David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps.
Miraphora Mina recalls the creative challenge of drawing up The Marauder\'s Map for the Harry Potter films.
Philip Pullman recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of his early novels, The Tin Princess .
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.
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.
Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow.
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
