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Dictionary of Imaginary Places, The

By: Harcourt Brace & Company

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Reference Books (Harcourt Brace & Company)

Last Stocked on 8/1/2019

Product Info

Title
Dictionary of Imaginary Places, The
Category
Author
Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi
Publish Year
1980
Pages
438
Dimensions
7.25x9.5x2.25"
NKG Part #
2147751797
Type
Hardcover

Description

Throughout the ages, writers have created an astonishing diversity of imaginary places, worlds of enchantment, horror and delight. This monumental book, now more comprehensive than ever, unites them in a single volume.

A national bestseller when first published in 1980, this unique and endlessly entertaining guidebook takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 imaginary cities, islands, countries, and continents, all invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. From Atlantis to Dracula's Castle, Middle Earth to Baskerville Hall, Utopia to Earthsea, here are worlds enough and more for every reader, fantasy fan, and passionate browser. And now it includes dozens of invaluable new entries and illustrations, including Eco's Abbey of the Rose, and Peter Carey's Etica. Among the lands are those of Lewis Carroll, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, John Lennon, Gilbert & Sullivan and Graham Greene. Written with wit and brilliance, the book is also a visual delight with more than 200 original illustrations and maps by Graham Greenfield, and James Cook, and new illustrations by award-winning artist Ken Nutt.