{"id":1786954,"date":"2019-01-10T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786954"},"modified":"2019-01-10T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:09:59","slug":"a-tube-map-of-earthsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/a-tube-map-of-earthsea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tube Map of Earthsea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everything under the sun can be expressed as a Tube map. Including, as blogger Camestros Felapton demonstrates above<\/a>, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea<\/em> books. A glance at the original and official maps of Earthsea<\/a> reveals that world as an intricate, almost overwhelming archipelago: Camestros’s map, like all good transit diagrams, expresses the books as journeys between points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything under the sun can be expressed as a Tube map. Including, as blogger Camestros Felapton demonstrates above, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books. A glance at the original and official maps of Earthsea reveals… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1320,31,204],"class_list":["post-1786954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-earthsea","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-tube","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1821675,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/12\/limited-edition-earthsea-map-print-now-available\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786954,"position":0},"title":"Limited Edition Earthsea Map Print Now Available","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 December 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"A limited edition print of Ursula K. 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In the gallery space, Le Guin\u2019s maps are looked at in isolation rather than relating directly to a text.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Book cover: The Word for World","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-word-for-world-cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-word-for-world-cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-word-for-world-cover.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/the-word-for-world-cover.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1845291,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/12\/more-on-le-guins-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786954,"position":3},"title":"More on Le Guin’s Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 December 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"The exhibition of Ursula K. 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