The author Frank Cottrell-Boyce started an interesting give-and-take on Twitter lately well-nigh novels (and other books) which include fictional maps. Most of yous reading this volition hold upwards familiar alongside the map from the Lord of the Rings as well as The Game of Thrones. Frank's Twitter thread too discusses the business office of maps inwards Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle, inwards Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as well as fifty-fifty inwards John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.
If yous read the thread on Twitter yous tin too persuasion all the replies inwards which other Twitter users add together their ain examples of books which convey fictional maps.
Frank's give-and-take of fictional maps reminded me of a Guardian quiz which tests whether yous tin Identify the Book from its Map. This Guardian quiz shows yous x fictional maps as well as merely asks yous to pick the right majority from a alternative of four. If yous similar the Guardian's majority map quiz thus yous mightiness too similar The Guardian's Can yous approximate the metropolis from the literary quote? quiz. This quiz tests your powerfulness to recognize cities equally described past times famous authors.
You mightiness too similar to essay your map noesis alongside these other Guardian map quizzes:
Can yous approximate the public metropolis from its mutual coldness nation of war Soviet spy map?
Can yous set these cities from their historic maps?
Can yous set public cities from their running heatmaps?
Can yous set these public cities from space?
