Description: 1. INTRODUCTION THE RELEVANCE OF SETTINGS WHAT IS FANTASY? OUTLINE OF THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS 2. MAPS PREVIOUS EXPLORATIONS OF FANTASY MAPS WHAT IS A FANTASY MAP? HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY: A SURVEY OF FANTASY MAPS The Prevalence of Maps General Map Features: Subject, Orientation, Surround Elements Types of Map Elements Hill Signs HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: READING FANTASY MAPS Reading "A Part of the Shire" Reading "The West of Middle-earth" Concluding Reflections 3. BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES BORDERS: HOLDING TOGETHER BY KEEPING APART A Final Injustice: The Dragaeran Paths of the Dead Protection from a Hostile World: Faerie and Wall in Stardust Apart and Together: Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom The Threshold with a Thousand Guises POLDERS: KEEPING THINGS AS THEY ARE Damming the Tides of Time: Tolkien's Lothlrien The Forest of Twisting Paths: Holdstock's Mythago Wood Time and Time Again: Pratchett's Djelibeybi Turning Geography into History CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS 4. NATURE AND CULTURE NATURE AND CULTURE: SOME SLIPPERY TERMS THE RETURN OF THE TREE: BRINGING NATURE BACK INTO MINAS TIRITH NATURE, MAGIC, AND MISFITS: WILDERNESS WITHIN NEWFORD BLURRED BOUNDARIES: CONFLUX IN NEW CROBUZON GROWING SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN: LIMINAL NATURE IN OMBRIA CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS 5. REALMS AND RULERS LINKING RULERS TO REALMS: AN OVERVIEW RULING THE MYTHICAL LANDSCAPE: THE FISHER KING IN LAST CALL SHAPING THE REALM: PALIMPSESTS IN TOURISTS LANDSCAPES OF EVIL: WHERE THE DARK LORDS LIVE "Such starved ignoble nature": Portrayals of Evil Lands Mordor The Spoiled Plains and Ridjeck Thome The Blight Evil Landscapes: The Personal Touch CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS 6. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS WORKS CITED APPENDIX A: METHOD FOR THE MAP SURVEY APPENDIX B: MAP SAMPLE Notes Bibliography* Index

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