C. S. Lewis and his brother Warren Lewis as children created an imaginary land called Boxen. They wrote stories and made maps of this land. What is left of this in 1985 was published as Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (retitled in later editions as Boxen: Childhood Chronicles Before Narnia):
The Hobbit had one earlier, though LOTR expanded it quite a bit.
This. It’s the thing I dislike most about e-books. I can’t enlarge the damn maps on my Kindle
Yes, i really like ebooks, but they aren’t good for checking the maps. And yes i enjoy maps and find them helpful to visualize the world and where people are in it.
Some of them you can. I’ve done so.
some e-books? or some kindles?
Imagine the frustration of someone listening to the audiobook.
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Apparently, I really like maps of fictitious places. I’ve hand-drawn many maps of cities that don’t exist, and drew a large one that shows how to get from The Shire to Narnia.
Hint: turn left just after the Fire Swamp, look for the cantina in Mos Eisley (sign says Korova Blue Milk Bar), have a butterbeer while you wait for the next bus (CatBus, Knight Bus, Bulgy Bus or Miss Frizzle’s … schedules vary. Do not get off at Dictionopolis or Shiz, but continue on to Pallet Town … etc etc.
Some ebooks on kindles. I have a kindle fire 10. I read a lot of fantasy and love maps.
I love maps in fantasy books. Many of the most popular series will have a map of some sort, tho not all are included in the books. As said above, Conan had a map, so did Elric of Melnibone and Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane books.
When Wheel of Time was on Amazon Prime last year, I looked up the map because I hadn’t read the books. Great details on some of those maps.
IIRC all of Jerry Pournelle’s Falkenberg’s Legion/Lysander of Sparta books had maps of the various planets they fought on. They were quite helpful.
Maps make a book, whether fiction or nonfiction, better.
A crutch can also make a lame man better.
That was a very intense, but also, at times, very boring book. I didn’t really need the map because he was pretty obsessive about physical descriptions.
I was thinking of Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright. I needed the map sometimes with that one.
One I remember was the map of the Kingdom of Wisdom from The Phantom Tollbooth. Somewhere between third and fifth grades (can’t remember exactly), I hand-copied the map as a school project.
Drawn by Jules Feiffer.
Mine was better.
The first Oz book to include a map was Tik-Tok of Oz. Before that, Baum had drawn one for his live travel lecture / magic lantern / short movie live performance Fairylogue and Radio Plays. Some later books included detail maps of the action area. The publisher had a map you could write in for, and you can get a set today (one map of Oz and one map of the continent Oz is in the center of and its surrounding seas) from the International Wizard of Oz Club (http://ozclub.org ).
I’m pretty sure Islandia by August Tappan Wright had a map.
Gulliver’s Travels has maps.
Tolkien recommended starting with a draft of the map, so you don’t foozle yourself while writing.
Many modern editions of Dante come with modern maps, but Dante wrote long before Gutenberg, and I am unaware of any official, auctorial map—and I’m pretty sure I would know if one existed.
Are they useful? Plenty, depending on how your brain operates.
I feel like Edgar Rice Burroughs had maps in the Barssom books of Mars, which are a sort of fantasy.
They were the first thought I had for early maps in books.
I had 2/3 of LoTR with large fold out maps, I think they broke from the binding though. (Paperbacks)
Hodgson’s vision is amazingly unique and eerie. His style is horribly artificial.
On the original Kindle, it was horrible. Since most of the Kindle (Fire) machines can handle things like tabs, I just open what I’m reading twice on two tabs and flip back and forth between the two pages. For non-Fantasy works, I usually have one tab set to Google Earth or Google Maps and flip between the text and the maps.