Map of Narnia
HelenAA
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I traced the map drawn by Pauline Baynes for C S Lewis' "Prince Caspian" and came up with this coloured version of my B&W 1960s paperback.
All in a week, I might add. This from someone whose maps usually take months and miles more cursing and frustration.
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Nicely done :)
I'd forgotten that map in my adulthood, but I remember it now that I see yours.
Nice! I am in the process of recreating the map of Oz. I drew that map so many times in childhood, I could do it by memory.
I'm listening to the books via Audible but the first 3 books don't have maps. This is the first map that Baynes did. If there's a map in either "Silver Chair" or "Last Battle" I'll do them too --- not sure about "Voyage of the Dawn Treader", though.
EDIT: there aren't any, just checked!
I have a map of VOTDT in my paperback copy.
There is a map for the Silver Chair, and also Horse and His Boy.
mine just has an illustration of the ship. : ( I do have the other two maps though. This is going to be a mapping project over the next few months I suspect as in an ideal world, I'd love to be able to stitch all three together after I've created Horse and Chair.
Have you got this map by Pauline Baynes?
No I haven't Quenten. Where did you find it?
I have to admit, half the fun of doing the maps from the books is just that -- fun. Lovely though the large map is, it doesn't give quite the challenge I'm after.
It has been available as a poster for quite a long time. It combines all the maps of Narnia from the books - prince Caspian, Dawn Treader, Horse and His Boy and Silver Chair.
Helen, you can find that map, and many other illustrations, on the Pauline Baynes website. She was an amazing lady who did a huge number of illustrations, including the only ones of Middle Earth not drawn by Tolkien himself during his lifetime which he authorised.
This map, and that for Middle Earth, were available as posters at one time, as I used to have both. They are true works of art!
Plus, she also did all the maps and illustrations for all of Lewis's "Narnia" books. There is, or was, a single volume hardcover at one stage which had all the texts, maps and illustrations in, all in colour, if I recall correctly.
you remember correctly @Wyvern - I had that book but found it was too big for me to read comfortably. The Pauline Baynes website is fascinating, I had no idea of the breadth of her work.