Maps of places that don’t exist and essays by the writers who made them. Treasure Island, Middle-earth, Narnia, Earthsea, Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood, Discworld, and plenty more, reproduced large. Philip Pullman, Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge, Cressida Cowell, David Mitchell, Joanne Harris and others write about the maps that shaped them and about drawing their own — several admit they can’t write a world until they’ve drawn it. Lewis-Jones threads in the history of imaginary cartography. A gorgeous object, and a real argument about how invented places get made.
The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands