Sep 24, 2018
From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps
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From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps
I love to travel, but I have pesky things like a day job and a budget that keep me at home most of the year. I think that’s one reason (of many, of course) that I love to read—the chance to “visit” new places. Thanks to books, I’ve been to rural Russia, the Scottish highlands, bustling cities in Nigeria, and a rural New Zealand whaling village. Sometimes, I’ll look up the book’s setting in a map app and use street view to wander through streets or check out a particular building. I’ve even created my own literary maps before for grad school projects or just for fun. Books + maps = one happy literary tourist.
Do you know someone with a similar addiction to maps and books? (Maybe it’s you.) Are their walls looking a little bare? Here are some of the best literary maps I’ve found on Etsy.
https://bookriot.com/2018/02/26/literary-maps-etsy/
Smiley's London
Set to make a long-awaited reappearance next month, George Smiley is John le Carré's most enduring character. In preparation for the event, Penguin Books has released a map of London annotated with locations key to his many appearances within le Carré's novels. Below you'll find a key to the map, click here to read about persons and/or events tied to those locations marked; or, you may download the map in PDF format here. A Legacy of Spies hits bookstore shelves on 5 September.
The Circus, British Intelligence Services HQ
No. 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea
Battersea Bridge (North end)
Unipress Building, Fleet Street
Alec Leamas's Flat, Bayswater
British Military Intelligence Agency, Blackfriars Road
Islay Hotel, Sussex Gardens
No. 5 Lock Gardens, Camden Town
Foreign Office Conference House, Carlton Gardens
Hampstead Heath
Paddington Station
No. 14 Disraeli Street, Bloomsbury
Câmara Municipal de Leiria, Rota dos Escritores / Writer’s tour, Leiria, Portugal, 2017
Landmarks in the map:
A Seventh Collection of Literary Maps
The Dreamlands, from the Dream Cycle stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Zothique, from the stories of Clark Ashton Smith
Hyperborea, from the stories of Clark Ashton Smith
The Travels of Ulysses, from The Iliad & The Odyssey, Homer
The Travels of Stephen Daedalus and Leopold Bloom, 16 June 1904; from Ulysses, James Joyce
Angria, from Tales of Angria, Charlotte & Branwell Brontë
Erewhon, from Erewhon, Samuel Butler
Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia; from 1984, George Orwell
An amusing map of Europe in the “time” of Sherlock Holmes (probably around 1913ish, though the map itself is from 1940).
Literary Map of Latin America. By Mike Cressy, 1988.
Every place is connected to writers, books and readers... as well as readers, books and writers are connected to places.
Bibliosphere is an environment that includes virtual and analogue connections among writers , books, readers and their places - real, virtual or fictional.
bibliosphere.weebly.com tries to link some of these relationships by using maps, social networks and library catalogues.
https://bibliosphere.weebly.com