Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City

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Atlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput To Gotham City by Matt Brown and Rhys B Davies | 9781849946414. And then there's East Cheam, which will be immediately obvious to older, British readers (an invention of Tony Hancock). From the top left: Africa, south east Asia, Australia, Europe, South America, North America, the Nordic Countries, and the Middle East. Locations from film, tv, literature, myths, comics and video games are plotted in a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps.

Feauturing 14 of the world’s greatest cities, the maps show exactly where your favourite characters lived, loved, worked and played, and where iconic scenes took place. The one that showed about 1,000 fictional British places from film, TV, novels, comics and video games? Or maybe you want to add some adventure to your lockdown life and finally visit Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island?As a lifelong dinosaur fan, I was excited that the mythical Isla Nublar, home of the ill-fated Jurassic Park, was also mapped.

I am already eagerly awaiting the extra large pull-down classroom version of these maps so I can use them as blinds in my office. From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world.

Ana de Lima’s whimsical, softly colored illustrations are filled with surprising details that reward close examination, while Mia Cassany’s soothing narrator is a nameless fellow traveler. In addition to the maps and the accompanying essays describing the twisty logic that the authors used to finally pin point where these famous locations from fiction are (most likely) located, the Atlas also includes an extensive index along with map coordinates so it is easy to find a particular someplace on the maps (although I think you’ll agree that a magnifying glass is essential equipment for reading these thousands of entries). From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver’s Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. This dreamy, gorgeously detailed picture book leads children on a journey to impossible but wonderfully imagined places.

Matt Brown's idea for the book was directly inspired by a similar map of fictional places in Britain that he created for Londonist. Characters' homes, bars, clubs, metro stations and skycrapers that you've seen or read about are all plotted in in beautiful vintage-style city maps. It's the sequel to 2021's award-winning Atlas of Imagined Places, and started out as a Londonist project. The real joy, though, is simply to browse the maps and make your own connections between very different works of fiction.Here can be seen illustrations depicting Dracula, a scene from The Prisoner of Zenda, the Grand Budapest Hotel from the Wes Anderson film of the same name, and Rapunzel's tower. Phileas Fogg could pop across the road into Grace Brothers, and dalmatians Pongo and Perdita could easily be spooked by the Invisible Man. From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. I also developed a range of icons and symbols for features such as mountains, lakes, shipwrecks and even 'sky elevators'.

Find out how to get to Sesame Street, where to join Starfleet and thousands of other places besides, in this indispensable guidebook to all those places you always wanted to visit – if only they were real. Clockwise from top left: Count Orlok from the film Nosferatu; the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; a castaway representing Robinson Crusoe; Anne Shirley from the Anne of Green Gables stories; the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell (based on the famous group portrait) looking at a map of Gondal, their invented island in the shape of Yorkshire set in the Pacific Ocean; Hogwarts School from the Harry Potter stories; and the house and characters from the TV sitcom Father Ted. This map includes locations from two animated movie franchises: the kingdom of Arendelle from Disney's Frozen and the Barbaric Archipelago from How To Train Your Dragon. From the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo’s fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera’s Parisian lair to scenes from Grand Theft Auto in LA, this is an amazing atlas of imaginary locations in real-life cities around the world.Besides the city maps, artfully drawn by illustrator Mike Hall, the book also includes plenty of mini-essays exploring the fiction of the 14 cities.