Reading Maps: Classic Journeys from Fiction Drawn on the Real World
Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world
Reading Maps is an interactive atlas that plots the routes from beloved books and films onto real-world maps. From the Pequod's voyage in Moby-Dick to the road trips of On the Road and The Grapes of Wrath, users can explore journeys by sea, river, road, or rail, filtered by genre or location. The site also offers games and a newsletter for literary travelers.
Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world
- ednorog81
What a good idea! Admirations to the authors!
- 1659447091
One of things I enjoyed about Piers Anthony's Xanth (as a teenager) was it being a punny geographical version of florida and its features. Even had me looking up maps of florida to pinpoint where they were in the story a couple times. It also had a time-period element where people from random time periods (from our world) might enter into the same Xanth lifetime/lifespan. That weaving of real world geography and time-periods together within the punny world of Xanth was creatively interesting for me.
- moribvndvs
I find naval battles fascinating, but they can be hard to visualize over time. Not only location of key events like this, but where each ship is located, where/what they were shooting, etc. There are a handful of YouTube channels that do reasonable jobs animating this, but I’d love something interactive I could scrub through at my leisure and provide lots more detail and context. I had been tinkering with an educational game where you could load in a battle and watch from almost any perspective (especially on deck), but as you might imagine that is a wildly large scope. Maybe something like this is a better first step :)