About this item
It's one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This magnificent collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. Philip Pullman recounts the experience of drawing a map as he set out on one of his early novels, The Tin Princess. Miraphora Mina recalls the creative challenge of drawing up "The Marauder's Map" for the Harry Potter films.
About the Author
Dr Huw Lewis-Jones is an award-winning author, teacher, and seafarer. He lives in Cornwall. Huw also travels across the Arctic and Antarctica each year working as an expedition leader. Twitter news @polarworld A best-selling author of history and photography books, Huw's titles include 'The Writer's Map', 'The Sea Journal', 'Arctic', 'Ocean Portraits', 'In Search of the South Pole', 'The Lifeboat', 'Mountain Heroes' - which won Adventure Book of the Year at the World ITB Awards in Germany - and 'The Conquest of Everest', winner of the History Award at the Banff Festival. To date, his books have been published in 18 languages.
