BOOK - Atlas of imaginary worlds

Writers are creators of worlds. Never Land, Middle-earth, Narnia, the Forest of Blue Dreams, Robinson's Island ... this atlas presents maps of these familiar places to readers. Twenty-three authors evoke the territories they have created in their works through the plans they have imagined. They also tell the literary or real places which made them dream and those which were at the source of their own inspiration. A magnificent journey from map to map through literature: an inexhaustible source of reverie and adventure! “Our cards were works of art. The main volcanoes spewed out such flames and sparks that one might have feared these paper continents would set ablaze; the mountain ranges were so blue and white with ice and snow it made your blood run cold. Our brown, barren deserts were lumpy with camels and pyramids, and our tropical jungles so lush and tangled that hunched jaguars, nimble snakes and moody gorillas moved with difficulty […]. Our rivers were wide and bluer than forget-me-not, dotted with canoes and crocodiles. Our oceans were all but empty… These maps were alive, we could study them, inspect them, complete them; cards that ultimately made sense. " Gerald Durel, My Family and Other Animals, 1956.