Marie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What (and roughly where, in "our" world) are the 7 hinterlands in the Wide Green World? Oleana seems to be most of the midwest, Raintree further west (toward the Mississippi and south a ways); it's not clear where Seagate is though there's mention of snow-topped mountains, and it's not clear what hinterland Graymouth / New Moon etc. are in. I think of Luthlia as being Minnesota, perhaps up into the Dakotas / Manitoba.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I never worked out all seven, but Oleana centers on Ohio and surroundings, Raintree on western Indiana and Illinois to the Mississippi, Seagate is New England (which does have snow-topped mountains) and eastern-seaboard Canada, Luthlia indeed Minnesota and S. Canada. Not the Dakotas, they're too far west and still recovering from the Big Blight. The south presumably has a name or two for its regions (which would include Graymouth.) I don't believe I ever named all the hinterlands -- it's useful to leave some things undefined to give space for future tales.
The larger map included in the books is as good as it gets for defined geography, though I rearranged it freely when I needed to. The Hardboil was the Tennessee River, roughly, though it's been a while.
Ta, L.
I never worked out all seven, but Oleana centers on Ohio and surroundings, Raintree on western Indiana and Illinois to the Mississippi, Seagate is New England (which does have snow-topped mountains) and eastern-seaboard Canada, Luthlia indeed Minnesota and S. Canada. Not the Dakotas, they're too far west and still recovering from the Big Blight. The south presumably has a name or two for its regions (which would include Graymouth.) I don't believe I ever named all the hinterlands -- it's useful to leave some things undefined to give space for future tales.
The larger map included in the books is as good as it gets for defined geography, though I rearranged it freely when I needed to. The Hardboil was the Tennessee River, roughly, though it's been a while.
Ta, L.
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