Literary Maps

Explore literature through the landscapes that inspired it and the imaginary worlds created upon the page. This collection ranges from Tolkien’s Middle-earth and C. S. Lewis’s Narnia, beautifully interpreted by Pauline Baynes, to A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard’s Hundred Acre Wood. Follow Thomas Hardy through Wessex, Ian Fleming’s James Bond across the globe, and the journeys, settings and characters of Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler. Discover Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, J. M. Barrie’s Neverland and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, alongside Shakespeare’s country and Britain’s literary heritage. The collection also embraces Frank Herbert’s Dune, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, George R. R. Martin’s Known World, Rev. W. Awdry’s Island of Sodor and the adventures of Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Antique originals and later pictorial maps reveal how artists and cartographers have transformed memorable stories into places we can explore.