About this item
Chart a journey across Marvel Comics' vast and vibrant universe, from its Earthbound mean streets and hidden lands, to its mythic realms and cosmic outer reaches. This Marvel-approved compendium of specially curated essays features stunning, newly commissioned cartography, illustrations, and diagrams to help readers navigate their way around iconic locales such as Asgard, Wakanda, Atlantis, Olympus, Hell's Kitchen, Latveria, Knowhere, The Savage Land, Battleworld, and many more. Marvel Universe: Map by Map delineates the contours of the ever-expanding, complex, and interconnected Marvel Universe, illuminating the incredible locations, epic events, and extraordinary characters that have shaped it. Boasting dazzling new artwork, gorgeous comic book visuals, and insightful, authoritative text, this is a premium, indispensable way finder for any armchair explorer.
About the Author
Trained as a psychiatrist in the UK, author James Hill's interest in early Man led him to later study anthropology and human evolution. How exciting to learn that an ancestor's appearance can be deduced from a single tooth and a bit of a skull. Or to see images of three and a half million year old footprints preserved in volcanic ash, clearly showing the position of the big toe - in relation to the others - somewhere between that of Man (the upright walker) and Ape (the tree climber). But how much more thrilling still to put warm, rippling flesh on stone-cold fossil bones by imagining you are actually there, living the life - and putting yourself into the mind of Man - when he was but one animal among many. And the world was unknown.That is why he wrote The Uprights.
