{"id":1786342,"date":"2018-10-03T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786342"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:49:07","slug":"essays-on-literary-maps-treasure-island-moominland-and-the-marauders-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/essays-on-literary-maps-treasure-island-moominland-and-the-marauders-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays on Literary Maps: Treasure Island, Moominland and the Marauder’s Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Another excerpt<\/a> from the forthcoming book The Writer’s Map<\/em><\/a>, this time in the Guardian<\/em><\/a>, in which three authors talk about their favourite literary maps: Robert Macfarlane on the map in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island<\/em>, Frances Hardinge on the map of Tove Jansson’s Moominland, and Miraphora Mina on the Harry Potter Marauder’s Map. In each case the maps are points of departure: Macfarlane gets all scholarly and theoretical, Hardinge and Mina more personal.<\/p>\n

Previously: David Mitchell on Starting with a Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another excerpt from the forthcoming book The Writer’s Map, this time in the Guardian, in which three authors talk about their favourite literary maps: Robert Macfarlane on the map in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island,… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-1786342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-books","tag-fantasy-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786498,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/more-from-and-on-the-writers-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786342,"position":0},"title":"More from (and on) The Writer’s Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 October 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"On Monday\u00a0I received a review copy of The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, a collection of essays edited by Huw Lewis-Jones. 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