Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City

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Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City

Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City

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Or that two major characters from Doctor Who and Star Trek lived in the same small part of San Francisco? Nevertheless, this fascinating book is essential for any map enthusiast or devotee of popular culture. The 14 cities covered are Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Paris, Rio, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo, Venice and Washington DC. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.

The maps draw from the movies, TV, novels, video games and more, all painstakingly tracked down, mapped, annotated and wittily divulged by the authors. Matt Brown's idea for the book was directly inspired by a similar map of fictional places in Britain that he created for Londonist.This dreamy, gorgeously detailed picture book leads children on a journey to impossible but wonderfully imagined places. The book includes 5,000 locations - everywhere from Bedrock to Erinsborough, Vice City to Wakanda - drawn from varied works of fiction, but plotted alongside one another like some madcap alternative reality.

Upside-down mountains, volcanoes that spew bubble gum, a gentle humpback whale keeping an entire city afloat. From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver’s Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. The maps also pinpoint dozens of famous fictional organisations and businesses — Central Perk, Ghostbusters HQ, Torchwood, Cyberdyne Sytems, Sterling Cooper, Tyrell Corporation, to name just a few of the more famous examples.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Feauturing 14 of the world’s greatest cities, the maps show exactly where your favourite characters lived, loved, worked and played, and where iconic scenes took place. Clockwise from top left: Count Orlok from the film Nosferatu; the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; a castaway representing Robinson Crusoe; Anne Shirley from the Anne of Green Gables stories; the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell (based on the famous group portrait) looking at a map of Gondal, their invented island in the shape of Yorkshire set in the Pacific Ocean; Hogwarts School from the Harry Potter stories; and the house and characters from the TV sitcom Father Ted. With a deep love of trivia, he’s written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. It's the sequel to 2021's award-winning Atlas of Imagined Places, and started out as a Londonist project.For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.



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