April 13, 2021
O is for Oz
April 12, 2021
N is for Neverwinter and Northrend
[Pictures: Map of Neverwinter;
View of Neverwinter from the harbor;
Neverwinter in the afternoon;
The Protector’s Enclave district of Neverwinter, unfortunately I can’t find any information about the artists, designers, or original sources for these images, but the computer game is by Arc Games, released 2013 (Images from Forgotten Realms Fandom here and here);
Map of Northrend;
Howling Fjord zone of Northrend, screen shot, 2018 (Image from WoWHead);
Icecrown Citadel in Northrend, login screen art, 2005 (Image from WoWHead);
Sholazar Basin zone of Northrend, screen shot, 2008 (Image from WoWHead), all screen shots from World of Warcraft computer game by Blizzard Entertainment, Northrend expansion released 2008.]
April 9, 2021
M is for Middle-Earth
April 8, 2021
L is for Luilekkerland
[Pictures: A selection of fanciful scenes describing the land, sites, and customs of Cockaigne, etching, Italy, 1575-1590 (Image from The British Museum);
Accurate Utopian Map of the Newly Discovered Fool’s World, the Often Mentioned but Never Discovered Land of Cockaigne, engraving by an Anonymous Author, c 1730-40 (Image from Wikimedia Commons).]
April 6, 2021
K is for Kitezh
read the post about Kitezh here.
[Pictures: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, painted lacquer box by Ivanovo Oblast Kholuy, 1973 (Image from The Virtual Russian Museum);
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, watercolor by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, 1928 (Image from Sotheby’s/akg-images);
The City of Kitezh, screen shot from “Rise of the Tomb Raider,” 2015 (Image from Steam Community);
The Drowned City, painting by Konstantin Gorbatov, 1933 (Image from Wikimedia Commons).]
April 5, 2021
J is for John
[Pictures: Detail from portolan map by Diogo Homem, c 1555-59 (Image from British Library);
Portolan chart by Vesconte Maggiolo, 1516 (Image from The Huntington);
Feathered men and Orchards with fruit that brings long life, from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, c 1425-1450 (Image from British Library);
Frontispiece from The Lands of Prester John by Francisco Alvarez, 1540 (Image from rowan);
Decoration from a Map of North-East Africa and Arabia by H. Lobo and M. Almeida, 1707 (Image from Wikimedia Commons).]
April 2, 2021
I is for Isles
[Pictures: The Immortal Island of Penglai, painting by Yuan Jiang, 1708 (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Oisín and Niamh arrive at Tír na nÓg, illustration by Stephen Rein from The High Deeds of Finn by T.W. Rolleston, 1910 (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Asteroid B612, illustration by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from The Little Prince, 1943;
Skybax Rider over Dinotopia, painting by James Gurney, c 1992 (Image from Heritage Auctions);
Utopia, woodcut by Ambrosius Holbein from Utopia by Thomas More, 1518 (Image from Wikimedia Commons);
Map of Wild Island by Ruth Chrisman Gannet from My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, 1948 (Image from Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center).]
April 1, 2021
H is for Hollow Earth #AtoZchallenge
the post about Hollow Earth here.
[Pictures: Back cover illustration from The Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres by John Cleves Symmes and Americus Symmes, 1878 (Image from Hathi Trust);
Front cover illustration from Geokosmos: Weltbild der Zukunft (Worldview of the Future) by Karl Neupert, 1942 (Image from Ricardo).]
March 31, 2021
G is for Gont
[Pictures: Gont, illustration by Ruth Robbins from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin, 1968;
Map of Gont by Margaret Chodos-Irvine from Tehanu by LeGuin, 1990.]