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A book written by master anthologist Alberto Manguel(he compiled Black
Water one the best anothologies I've ever seen) and co writen by Gianni
Guadalupi this is a book about all the fantastic places that are in
literature and myth. From Atlantis to Tolkien's Middle-Earth,
this book covers more than 1,200 places storytellers from Homer all the
way up. There is also pictures of things like Umberto Eco's Island of
the Day Before, Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories(so cool), and Neil
Gaiman's Neverwhere. What makes Manguel such a good editor and compilier
is he always seems to include all the exciting heavyweights (as opposed
to Russian Realistsand Jane Austen) and in this book there is stuff
from the minds of Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne,
L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis and Jorge Luis Borges. More than 200 original
illustrations and maps of stuff like Oz, Lilliputia and Narnia. Pretty
neat.
nodes on E2 (courtesy of spacklequeen) about these places:
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