Unlock Your Imagination with The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands

Evan Carlinsmith: The Writer’s Map, An Atlas if Imaginary Lands is a wonderful treasure of inspiration for any illustrator or writer. This book explores the method of using imaginary maps to create the world of fiction that the author’s characters exist in. It’s full of fascinating creative processes and techniques to creating either imaginary maps and creative cartography or as method for writing a creating stories.

United Kingdom on Jun 11, 2023

R. Jordan: This was a gift and it was well received. The maps it contains are wonderful and the stories about them are very interesting.

United States on Jan 22, 2023

EM: 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).

Australia on Jul 09, 2022

Sean: This really is an impressive book and such content for the price. Bought this for my daughter for her degree in English and creative writing. Full of wonderful illustrated maps from the simple sketch, to the elaborate with fine detail. Truly a world of maps to fuel the imagination.

United Kingdom on May 11, 2022

Mariah Ballweber: Very cool. Great texture on the cover— perfect gift for my friend who loves Narnia and anything fantasy!

United States on Feb 14, 2022

Keely B: I loved the idea.
But wanted it for my map obsessed kids (6 and 8).
Even as an adult, I wouldn't want to read that much text....I just want to explore super cool literary maps. So for us, it was a no go. Just too much text, not enough maps! But if you are looking for thick description, then this is for you. No doubt. It is a really beautiful book, thick, and lots of detailed descriptions.
Returned item.

United States on Dec 28, 2020

EdithEdith: Un superbe ouvrage de Hew Lewis-Jones, historien et conservateur d'art au Scott Polar Research Institute de l'Université de Cambridge.
The writer's map est un atlas des terres imaginaires nées sous la plume de grands auteurs, il comprend non seulement les cartes figurant réellement dans leurs livres, mais aussi les nombreuses cartes qui les ont inspirés et les croquis qu’ils ont utilisés pour rédiger leurs textes. Pour certains, créer une carte est un élément essentiel pour construire et raconter une histoire, "I wisely started with a map and made the story fit", a un jour dit Tolkien.
Ici des auteurs nous font part de leur processus et expériences illustrées par des cartes du monde telles qu'elles étaient envisagées à l'époque médiévale, ainsi que des cartes d'aventure, de SiFi et de Fantasy, des cartes issues de classiques littéraires, de BD etc...
Un livre superbe dans lequel les cartes, fascinantes pour tous les explorateurs du réel et de l'imaginaire, qu'ils soient petits ou grands, sont mises à l'honneur et nous invitent à vivre de véritables aventures et faire voyager notre esprit.

France on Mar 14, 2019

Vintage Sedona: This book is enchanting! I love it!

I bought it for my son as he loves maps, geography, fantasy, history, imagination and the list goes on.

For avid readers of children's literature particularly fantasy and magic (Harry Potter, Narnia, LOTR, etc) the book has detailed black and white and color copies of all the popular maps plus more. I've already found one map The Land of Make Believe map which is so charming and would make a great addition to a child's room.

There are chapters from either the point of view of the author and how maps from other books impacted their imagination and writing as well as one from the illustrator that created the letters and Marauder's Map for the Harry Potter movies. The details of what was needed to create a magical letters map that was beyond the norm was fascinating.

This is one of those books that I want to give to each and every long-time fantasy reader and friend as it has so many old literary favorites as well as new ones you will want to explore.

United States on Nov 23, 2018

John D. Cofield: 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...

United States on Oct 26, 2018

The stainless steel rat: This is a beautiful book. I've always loved maps and imaginary ones are so much better than the OS map 112 covering Scunthorpe. Like a lot of people I was hooked as a child with the 100 acre wood and middle earth, both of which are in this volume along with many others I have not seen. I have to say I think the Fantasy Genre is a bit underrepresented given the fact that every house brick sized epic of the past 30 years has had it's map at the beginning but overall it is a lovely book for dipping in and out of when the moment presents. Just don't use any of them for navigational purposes.

United Kingdom on Oct 24, 2018