Atlas of the Land Illustrations

[Cord Hurn]

I think I need to get around to purchasing the Atlas of the Land, myself. It would makes re-reads more fun, to have this book open to the appropriate map while I read along...

[wayfriend]

It's by Karen Wynn Fonstad.

There are some pictures in the Album>Laborium.

Some of the pictures you saw might be from Realms of Fantasy. The Andelain in the forum title is.

[wayfriend]

I don't know. I just have dANdeLION's comment in the Laborium that says "From the book 'Realms Of Fantasy'", and "By Mark Harrison".

Mark Harrison's Art Blog says,

Guy Coulson has sold three of my old book jacket artworks. They are "Caddoran", "Hunting The Last Dragon" and "Andelain". "Andelain" was an illustration of the fictional land in the Thomas Covenant series of books by Stephen Donaldson and was used in "Realms Of Fantasy" published by Paper Tiger in 1983.

Which leads to:


https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDe ... 2446322390

Now I am curious who Guy Coulson is. I tried to contact Mark Harrison about his Andelain artwork back in 2014, but I was unable to reach the correct Mark Harrison. Now he's gone and sold it to Guy Coulson. I think Coulson's the partner of John Avon, who also does fantasy artwork.

[wayfriend]

Let us know if it's good.

I know Andelain is in there. I think there's also a Foul's Creche, not sure.

[Forestal]

I'm currently using my copy of the Atlas to help with running a D&D game, it's great for that.

The illustrations that it contains are all cartographical in style and nature, everything drawn to scale and includes all the iconic locations (and most, if not all, of the minor ones) in the first and second chronicles (as it was published before the third). There is no colour, no illustrations of characters or creatures of the land, nor anything that I would class as "artists impressions".

It also includes Haven Farm and the town, which is quite interesting.

If you're looking for flashy, impressive imagry, then it's not the book for you. If you're looking for a good way to get an idea of the true scale of the Land and the landmarks in it, it's fantastic.

[Forestal]

There is a page for Mithil Stonedown with all the houses laid out, in relation to the Mithil river. There's a bit of blurb along side it too, so it should give you a little better idea about it.

The Atlas isn't easy to find, this is true. I was fortunate enough to find a fairly inexpensive hardcover copy about a year ago. I love it.

[Avatar]

Maps are cool.

--A

[Avatar]

Haha, yeah, talk about persistence.

Pity there's not more in it.

--A

[Cord Hurn]

Maps are cool.

--A

Indeed. I'm a little obsessed with them, myself.

[Hashi Lebwohl]

I still have my copy of The Atlas of the Land, which was a gift from the mezzo-soprano many years ago (27, in fact). I was young and naive; she was older and self-centered. But enough about the past.

[Avatar]

But that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead.

--A

[darthbuzz]

It is essential to have the atlas in my opinion.



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