Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City

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The one that showed about 1,000 fictional British places from film, TV, novels, comics and video games? Or maybe you want to add some adventure to your lockdown life and finally visit Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island?

Nevertheless, this fascinating book is essential for any map enthusiast or devotee of popular culture. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Clockwise from top left: Gulliver and a giant bee in Brobdingnag and with a Houyhnhnm (talking horse) from Gulliver's Travels; the Grand Budapest Hotel from the movie of the same name; Godzilla or Gojira; yellow periscopes that represent The Yellow Submarine; floating plastic waste that references the island in Plastic Beach, the album by Gorillaz; the whale attacking the crew of the Pequod in Moby-Dick; and the main characters from the classical Chinese tale Journey to the West.Each one was designed to reflect a culture or traditional designs unique to each continent or region. Detail from the map of Eastern Europe, including a large section of European Russia and the Baltics. Feauturing 14 of the world’s greatest cities, the maps show exactly where your favourite characters lived, loved, worked and played, and where iconic scenes took place. Whole fictional boroughs such as Walford (Eastenders) and Canley (The Bill) are served by fictional tube stations such as Hobb's End (Quatermass and the Pit) and Vauxhall Cross (Die Another Day). Or that two major characters from Doctor Who and Star Trek lived in the same small part of San Francisco?

For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. I also discovered a bounty of toys for any little girl or boy who wishes for a Christmas gift when I found the Isle of Mifsfit Toys. The 14 cities covered are Berlin, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Paris, Rio, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo, Venice and Washington DC. The book includes 5,000 locations - everywhere from Bedrock to Erinsborough, Vice City to Wakanda - drawn from varied works of fiction, but plotted alongside one another like some madcap alternative reality. From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world.With a deep love of trivia, he's written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. Sometimes these are easy to work out but other times a bit of detective work is needed and the authors have been those detectives. Combining pop culture with map enthusiasm, 'The Atlas of Imagined Places: from Liliput to Gotham City' is published by Pavilion Books and written by Matt Brown and Rhys B. This was one of the more challenging maps to design, in that there are no precedents for maps of both regions together on the same projection (besides maps of the whole world or the continent of Asia). The Central America map contains hundreds of places, from Pirates of the Caribbean to Jurassic Park, with cameos from James Bond, Captain Pugwash, Robinson Crusoe and From Dawn to Dusk.