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作家腦海裡的地圖不但是神奇故事的開端，更是許多冒險的起始，
不管是哈利波特裡的劫獵地圖，還是哈比人世界的地圖，
《The Writer’s Map》167幅全彩圖像，帶你進入想像中的驚奇旅程！
不管是哈利波特裡的劫獵地圖，還是哈比人世界的地圖，
《The Writer’s Map》167幅全彩圖像，帶你進入想像中的驚奇旅程！
這是每個人從小就發現的一件事：地圖具有一股神奇的力量，它能透過奇妙旅程，帶我們前往遙遠的地方。在書的開頭放一張圖，讀者就知道一場冒險即將開始。而這本精美、附有全彩插圖的《The Writer’s Map》，正是一本作家所製作的地圖，書中地圖不僅出現在他們筆下的故事裡，還包括許多激發他們靈感的地圖，以及作家寫作時使用的草圖。
對某些人來說，地圖是他們故事的核心。在這本書中，菲力普．普曼（Philip Pullman）講述了他為知名作品錫公主（The Tin Princess）繪製地圖的過程；設計師米拉芙拉．米娜（Miraphora Mina）回憶她為哈利波特電影製作劫獵地圖（The Marauder’s Map）的創造性挑戰；大衛．米切爾（David Mitchell）則是在作品《雲圖》（Cloud Atlas）中帶我們一窺赫里福德地圖；喬安娜．哈里斯（Joanne Harris）講述她對北歐地圖的迷戀；紐西蘭藝術家丹尼爾．瑞夫（Daniel Reeve）則是描述他製作哈比人三部曲的地圖、圖表等經過。
《The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands》書中有167幅全彩圖像，在其中我們可以發現中世紀時人們想像的世界地圖，也可以看到冒險的、科幻的、文學經典的甚至是漫畫中的地圖，對喜歡文學的你來說，這是一本不可錯過的好書。
It’s one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer’s Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity.
Philip Pullman recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of his early novels, The Tin Princess. Miraphora Mina recalls the creative challenge of drawing up ”The Marauder’s Map” for the Harry Potter films. David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. Robert Macfarlane reflects on the cartophilia that has informed his evocative nature writing, which was set off by Robert Louis Stevenson and his map of Treasure Island. Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of the universe. Reif Larsen writes about our dependence on GPS and the impulse to map our experience. Daniel Reeve describes drawing maps and charts for The Hobbit film trilogy. This exquisitely crafted and illustrated atlas explores these and so many more of the maps writers create and are inspired by—some real, some imagined—in both words and images.
Amid a cornucopia of 167 full-color images, we find here maps of the world as envisaged in medieval times, as well as maps of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy, nursery rhymes, literary classics, and collectible comics. An enchanting visual and verbal journey, The Writer’s Map will be irresistible for lovers of maps, literature, and memories—and anyone prone to flights of the imagination.
It’s one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer’s Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity.
Philip Pullman recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of his early novels, The Tin Princess. Miraphora Mina recalls the creative challenge of drawing up ”The Marauder’s Map” for the Harry Potter films. David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. Robert Macfarlane reflects on the cartophilia that has informed his evocative nature writing, which was set off by Robert Louis Stevenson and his map of Treasure Island. Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of the universe. Reif Larsen writes about our dependence on GPS and the impulse to map our experience. Daniel Reeve describes drawing maps and charts for The Hobbit film trilogy. This exquisitely crafted and illustrated atlas explores these and so many more of the maps writers create and are inspired by—some real, some imagined—in both words and images.
Amid a cornucopia of 167 full-color images, we find here maps of the world as envisaged in medieval times, as well as maps of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy, nursery rhymes, literary classics, and collectible comics. An enchanting visual and verbal journey, The Writer’s Map will be irresistible for lovers of maps, literature, and memories—and anyone prone to flights of the imagination.
