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The dictionary of imaginary places / Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi ; illustrated by Graham Greenfield ; with additional illustrations by Eric Beddows ; maps and charts by James Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manguel, Alberto.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geographical myths--Dictionaries.
- Geographical myths.
- Imaginary places--Dictionaries.
- Imaginary places.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 755 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Newly updated and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace, [2000]
- Summary:
- "From Atlantis to Xanadu, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own."--BOOK JACKET. "Most every fanciful world from books and film is included: Shangri-La and El Dorado are here, as is Utopia, Tolkien's Middle-earth, and Carroll's Wonderland, as well as the Beatles' Pepperland, the Marx Brothers' Freedonia, and a strange little town called Stepford. The history and behavior of the inhabitants of these lands are described in detail and supplemented by more than 220 maps and illustrations that depict the lay of the land in a host of elsewheres."--BOOK JACKET. "Now brought up-to-date with dozens of new entries for such places as Jurassic Park, Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories, and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, this volume is even more comprehensive and entertaining."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0151005419
- OCLC:
- 42397780
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