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By Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi

From Atlantis to Xanadu and past, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a travel of greater than 1,200 geographical regions invented by way of storytellers from Homer's day to our personal. the following you'll find Shangri-La and El Dorado; Utopia and center Earth; Wonderland and Freedonia. right here too are Jurassic Park, Salman Rushdie's Sea of reports, and the excellent international of Harry Potter. The background and behaviour of the population of those lands are defined in loving element, and are supplemented through greater than 2 hundred maps and illustrations that depict the lay of the land in a bunch of elsewheres. essential for the library of each committed reader, delusion fan, or passionate browser, Dictionary is a witty and acute advisor for any armchair traveler's trip into the panorama of the imagination.

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