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: