Jeremiah Benjamin Post

Terrific book, even if only for the impetus it gave me to read more obscure fantasy authors--would I ever have attempted James Branch Cabell without it? A wonderful array of maps from earlier fantasy novels--a surprising number of them, given that the explosion in fantasy publishing hadn't quite happened yet.

(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).

There are some of the great maps, Middle Earth, Narnia, and, Islandia. We can't escape Oz, apparently, and then the disproportionate maps like "Texas and the USA", and the really crude like Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom. Not a bad selection, and it doesn't have anything done after 1978. So, an okay production.

I love maps. I love fantasy. This book combines the two, giving us maps of our favorite fantasy worlds from Middle Earth to Oz and some places we never thought to go.