Useful Sources: Ex Carta
Key resources about maps and cartography, including those used in the 'Research' environment of Ex Carta
©Moomin Characters ™
Bassett, Thomas J., and Philip W. Porter, ‘“From the Best Authorities”: The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa’, The Journal of African History, 32.3 (1991), 367–413
Brooks, Cleanth, William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha County (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990)
Bushell, Sally, Reading and Mapping Fiction: Spatialising the Literary Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Cassany, Mia, and Ana de Lima, Atlas of Imaginary Places (Munich: Prestel, 2018)
©The Sunderland Collection
Clute, John, and John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Little, Brown, 1999)
Clute, John, and Peter Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Orbit, 1993)
Dungeon Master’s Guide (Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2024)
Ekman, Stefan, Here be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings (Wesleyan University Press, 2013)
Ford, Paul F., Companion to Narnia (London: HarperCollins, 2005)
©James Bissell-Thomas
Hahn, Daniel (ed.), Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of Children’s Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025)
Hein, Rolland, Christian Mythmakers: C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, J. R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard (Waynesboro, GA: Cornerstone Press, 2002)
Lane, K. Maria D., Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Lewis, C. S., Of This and Other Worlds (London: Fount, 2000)
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Lewis-Jones, Huw (ed.), The Writer’s Map (London: Thames & Hudson, 2018)
Luckhurst, Roger, Science Fiction: A Literary History (London: British Library Publishing, 2017)
Mendlesohn, Farah, Rhetorics of Fantasy (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008)
Montfort, Nick, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005)
Peterson, Jon, Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021)
Post, J. B., An Atlas of Fantasy (Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1973)
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Rabitsch, Stefan, Star Trek and the British Age of Sail (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019)
Rahn, Suzanne, The Wizard of Oz: Shaping an Imaginary World, Twayne’s Masterwork Studies, 167 (New York: Twayne Publishers; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998)
Roberts, Adam, The History of Science Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Sangster, Matthew, An Introduction to Fantasy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
©1986 Nintendo Co., Ltd
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. by Humphrey Carpenter (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
——, Tree and Leaf (London: HarperCollins, 2025)
Turchi, Peter, Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2004)
Wolf, Mark J. P. (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds (London: Routledge, 2018)
——, Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation (London: Routledge, 2013)
