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An Atlas Of Fantasy
by
J.B. Post
To remain of manageable size, the Atlas excludes advertising maps, cartograms, most disproportionate maps, and alternate history ("might have been") maps, focusing instead on imaginary lands derived from literary sources. It purposefully omits "one-to-one" maps such as Thomas Hardy's Wessex (which merely renames places in southwest England), but includes Barsetshire and Yo...more
Paperback, 210 pages
Published
1979
by Ballantine Books (P)
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Jan 25, 2012
Ceridwen
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
visual information nerds; nerds in general
Shelves:
alternate-history,
books-about-books,
fantasy,
reference,
reviewed,
sci-fi,
tolkien-uber-alles
I rescued this book from certain doom yesterday - you're welcome - and in order to do so, I had to find my copy and page through it. So I might as well review! (The certain doom is the fact that Goodreads will no longer display book data that comes from Amazon. If you follow the link in the blog post, you'll get a list of books on your bookshelves that are in peril. And before you freak out, it looks as though your reviews will be safe, even if they are written for a book only listed through Ama...more
I have managed to acquire a copy of this childhood favorite. It was only $1.98 but they got me with shipping and handling. Still it only came to about $8, less than I paid for the original copy, which fell apart because the binding couldn't take the constant page turning.
Poring over these maps eventually led me to the works of James Branch Cabell, E.R. Eddison, Austin Wright, Leigh Brackett and Clark Ashton Smith. I even heard about William Faulkner from this book since there's a map of Yoknapat...more
Poring over these maps eventually led me to the works of James Branch Cabell, E.R. Eddison, Austin Wright, Leigh Brackett and Clark Ashton Smith. I even heard about William Faulkner from this book since there's a map of Yoknapat...more
It's a nonfiction book about fantasy worlds, including worlds created by writers such as Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Tolkien and many others, even such writers as Thomas More's "Utopia" and John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress."
Well worth getting. Just cool to browse through.
Well worth getting. Just cool to browse through.
Another book from my childhood, a good companion with Alberto Manguel's The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic this has all kinds of maps of various fantasy lands from their original publications. Made me love maps as a child.
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Jan 29, 2012 05:24pm
The red part with the giant red arrow poin...more
Jan 29, 2012 05:34pm