Aaron Blake literary maps

Explore the imaginative literary maps published by Aaron Blake during the 1980s, charting the places, journeys and creative ...

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Explore the imaginative literary maps published by Aaron Blake during the 1980s, charting the places, journeys and creative worlds associated with celebrated writers and characters. This collection includes maps devoted to Ernest Hemingway’s life and travels, the Beat Generation of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, and Ian Fleming’s James Bond adventures. Broader surveys map the authors, homes and literary landmarks of New York City and Latin America. Richly illustrated and densely annotated, these decorative maps bring biography, geography and literary history together in an engaging visual form. They offer an accessible guide to the settings that shaped influential books and writers, while their distinctive period design makes them especially appealing today to collectors of literary ephemera, pictorial maps and twentieth-century graphic art.

Explore the imaginative literary maps published by Aaron Blake during the 1980s, charting the places, journeys and creative worlds associated with celebrated writers and characters. This collection includes maps devoted to Ernest Hemingway’s life and travels, the Beat Generation of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, and Ian Fleming’s James Bond adventures. Broader surveys map the authors, homes and literary landmarks of New York City and Latin America. Richly illustrated and densely annotated, these decorative maps bring biography, geography and literary history together in an engaging visual form. They offer an accessible guide to the settings that shaped influential books and writers, while their distinctive period design makes them especially appealing today to collectors of literary ephemera, pictorial maps and twentieth-century graphic art.

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