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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book is a library essential - it can be browsed each time there's a need to refresh a fictional setting, in fiction, science-fiction and fantasy. This newly revised edition includes Hogwarts, and it is a most useful tool when refering to imaginary places. (  )1   soniaandree | Feb 26, 2009 |  This is a fantastic achievement and an essential book for anyone interested in fantastic literature. It may not include every place you'd like it to, but it makes up for any such deficiency by including places of which you've never heard. I dip into this book regularly to discover new worlds or to re-encounter ones I visited long ago. The maps are a particular pleasure -- you can lose yourself looking at the map of Oz. ( )1 tom1066 | Nov 22, 2007 | Just a book to pick up, open to any page, and get lost in an imaginary landscape. I adore setting. ( ) Zmrzlina | Nov 11, 2007 | I first got the 1987 edition of this book as a gift from my uncle in the mid-nineties, and it has since been one of my favorite volumes to idly peruse. Though it contains lengthy entries on the most frequently visited of imaginary places, such as Middle-earth, Earthsea, and Oz, its entries on less familiar regions such as Sylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin are welcome. This work was my first introduction to such places as Arkham, Gormenghast, and Erewhon, and inspired me to find each source work. I've found it both a useful reference as well as fine pleasure reading due to Manguel and Guadalupi's jovial prose, which treats each place as if the reader might really be planning to travel there in the near future. ( )7 Branduno | Jul 21, 2007 | I love this book. It's an encyclopedia of 1200+ imaginary lands invented by storytellers from Homer to Tolkien. ( ) 100experiments | Feb 25, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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