THE DICTIONARY OF IMAGINARY PLACES

In this dictionary, the world from books and film is included; Shangri-La and El Dorado are here, as is Utopia, Tolkiens Middle-earth, and Carrolls Wonderland, as well as the Beatles Pepperland, the Marx Brothers Freedonia, and a strange little town called Stepford. The history and behavior of the inhabitants of these lands are described and supplemented by more than 220 maps and illustrations that depict the lay of the land in a host of elsewheres.