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THE WRITERS MAP

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THE WRITERS MAPAn Atlas of Imaginary LandsEDITED BY HUW LEWIS-JONESThe University of Chicago Press

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CONTENTSHalf-title: A map drawn by Charlotte Bront around1826, when she was just nine years old, for a bookPROLOGUETHE WILD BEYONDHALF THOUGHTSso tiny it could fit into your hand.Walking in the WoodsClangers and NogginFrontispiece: The title-page illustration toA PLAUSIBLE POSSIBLEPIERS TORDAYPETER FIRMINDe Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofteRazkavia Realized132200Water-Werelt by Claas Jansz Vooght and Johannesvan Keulen, Amsterdam 1682.PHILIP PULLMAN8REAL IN MY HEADContents: The fatal lure of Himalayan peaks inAdventures on Castle KeyEdward Nortons The Fight for Everest: 1924.HELEN MOSSPART FOUR READING MAPSPages 67: This remarkable atlas was created by138Nicholas Vallard in Dieppe in 1547. Here is theelusive landmass of Jave la Grande.PART ONE MAKE BELIEVEFOREIGN FANTASYBEYOND THE BLUE DOORDungeons and DragonsTHE LITTLE THINGSRoutes through NarniaLEV GROSSMANThe University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637Mapping MemoriesABI ELPHINSTONE208The Writers Map 2018 Thames & Hudson Ltd, LondonHUW LEWIS-JONES14416BY A WOMANS HANDEdited by Huw Lewis-JonesCartographically CuriousA Plausible Possible 2018 Philip PullmanIN FABLED LANDSSANDI TOKSVIGThe Little Things 2018 Huw Lewis-JonesLiterary GeographiesPART THREE CREATING MAPS214In Fabled Lands 2018 Huw Lewis-Jones and Brian SibleyHUW LEWIS-JONES AND BRIAN SIBLEYFirst Steps 2018 Cressida CowellOff the Grid 2018 Robert Macfarlane38MISCHIEF MANAGEDLANDSCAPE OF THE BODYThose Who Wander 2018 Francis HardingeThe Marauders MapInterior JourneysRebuilding Asgard 2018 Joanne HarrisMIRAPHORA MINABRIAN SELZNICKImaginary Cartography 2018 David Mitchell154220To Know the Dark 2018 Kiran Millwood HargraveThe Wild Beyond 2018 Piers TordayPART TWO WRITING MAPSReal in My Head 2018 Helen MossUNCHARTED TERRITORYEXPLORING UNKNOWNSBeyond the Blue Door 2018 Abi ElphinstoneFIRST STEPSA Middle-Earth MapmakerTerra IncognitaMischief Managed 2018 Miraphora MinaUncharted Territory 2018 Daniel ReeveOur NeverlandsDANIEL REEVEHUW LEWIS-JONESConnecting Contours 2018 Reif LarsenCRESSIDA COWELL158226A Wild Farrago 2018 Russ Nicholson80The Cycle of Stories 2018 Isabel GreenbergNo Boy Scout 2018 Roland ChambersCONNECTING CONTOURSSymbols and Signs 2018 Coralie Bickford-SmithOFF THE GRIDCarta Marina and MoreHalf Thoughts 2018 Peter FirminTreasured IslandsREIF LARSENENVOIForeign Fantasy 2018 Lev GrossmanBy a Womans Hand 2018 Sandi ToksvigROBERT MACFARLANE166Landscape of the Body 2018 Brian Selznick94NEVER FORGETExploring Unknowns 2018 Huw Lewis-JonesA WILD FARRAGOThe Beauty of BooksNever Forget 2018 Chris RiddellTHOSE WHO WANDERFar-Off FantasiesCHRIS RIDDELLDesigned by Karin FremerMoominvalley and BeyondRUSS NICHOLSON240FRANCES HARDINGE174All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or102reproduced in any manner whatsoever without writtenpermission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articlesTHE CYCLE OF STORIESCONTRIBUTORSand reviews. For more information, contact the University ofREBUILDING ASGARDEarly Earth and Faerie246Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637.A Viking WorldviewISABEL GREENBERGACKNOWLEDGMENTSPublished 2018JOANNE HARRIS180247110Printed in ChinaNO BOY SCOUTFURTHER READINGIMAGINARY CARTOGRAPHYWith Swallows and Amazons24827 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 1 2 3 4 5Mordor to Mappa MundiROLAND CHAMBERSSOURCES OF QUOTATIONSISBN-13: 978-0-226-59663-1 (cloth)DAVID MITCHELL188249118First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 byThames & Hudson Ltd, 181A High Holborn, London WC1V 7QX.SYMBOLS AND SIGNSSOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONSPublished by arrangement with Thames & Hudson Ltd., London.TO KNOW THE DARKOn Crusoe and Others250With Scott and KircherCORALIE BICKFORD-SMITHINDEXLCCN 2018017933KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE192253126

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A PLAUSIBLE POSSIBLERazkavia RealizedPHILIP PULLMANTo those devoid of imaginationa blank place on the map is a useless waste;to others, the most valuable part.ALDO LEOPOLD, 1949MANY YEARS AGO I wrote a novel called The Tin Princess. It was the fourth (and sofar the last) in a series of adventure stories set in the late Victorian period, with aheroine called Sally Lockhart, who could ride like a Cossack, shoot a pistol, scrutinizea balance-sheet and do all kinds of other unladylike things. At the heart of each ofthe four books was a hoary old clich of penny-dreadful fiction: the first concerneda jewel with a curse on it, the second a mad inventor with a machine that coulddestroy the world, the third led up to a scene in a cellar with floodwater rising, andin this one I wanted to tell a story about an illiterate girl from the slums of Londonwho became a princess.Each story had to be as realistic as I could make it, given the melodramaticpremise. Things could be as unlikely as necessary, but they all had to be possible, orat least plausible.And to give my character Adelaide a country to be princess of, I stole the ideaof that marvellous invention of Anthony Hope, that flower of central Europe, thathappy realm, Ruritania. Or the idea of Ruritania. Hopes novel The Prisoner of Zendaappeared in 1894, and Ruritania has flourished happily in the imagination eversince. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, in Leonard Wibberleys delightful 1955 novelThe Mouse That Roared, is another iteration of this idea. I wanted to have a go at it, soI borrowed all the best parts and made up the rest. I wanted a tiny kingdom tuckedaway in the interstices of the atlas, between Bohemia and wherever was next toBohemia: Prussia, possibly. It was to be one of the scattered remnants of the HolyRoman Empire, still independent and proudly free amid the great currents of politicsand statecraft swirling through Europe as the power of Prussia burgeoned and thatof Austria-Hungary decayed.I named it Razkavia. It had a capital city called Eschtenburg, adelightful place full of crooked streets, with a cathedral and a castle andIn Philip Pullmans OnceUpon a Time in the Northa palace and a river and a railway station and an ancient citadel on aa Texan aeronaut joinsgreat rock in a bend of the river. There was an important ritual involvingforces with an armouredbear to break up a deadlya flag, a vast and heavy and much-repaired relic of the Middle Ages: onconspiracy. The bookthe death of a monarch, the great flag was taken down from the summitincludes this Peril ofof the citadel and hung in the cathedral across the river, until the coro-the Pole game by masterengraver John Lawrence.nation of a new monarch, when the just-crowned king had to carry thePHILIP PULLMAN . 9

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