As Tolkien once said, “I wisely started with a map and made the story fit…”. From “The Hobbit” and the Narnia chronicles to Pratchett’s Discworld, from A.A. Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood to David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas” – and many other strange and surprising places – this is a spellbinding compendium of writer’s thoughts on the geographies they describe and the wild landscapes of their imagination.

“It is hard to imagine a world without books. It is equally hard, it seems to me, to imagine a world without maps.”

“The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands” is edited by Huw Lewis-Jones. Published by Thames & Hudson in 2018. Bought by me for the Sea Library 💙

Photos by Anna Iltnere / Sea Library