Research Catalog

Title

• 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.

Author

Manguel, Alberto

Publication

New York : Harcourt Brace, c2000.

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Additional Authors

Guadalupi, Gianni

Description

xvi, 755 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

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." "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." "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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geographical myths > Dictionaries
• Imaginary places > Dictionaries

Genre/Form

Dictionaries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0151005419

LCCN

^^^99046994^

OCLC

42397780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library