End Paper Maps
You open the book and notice that the first thing you see (on the front endpaper) is a map which guides you through the subsequent narrative. Sometimes the back end paper is a different map (perhaps a resolution of the narrative), but usually it is the same.
Nursery Rhyme Land, London c1925
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George R.Stewart’s US 40, CROSS SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Houghton Mifflin Boston 1953, illustrations by Erwin Reisz.
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Donald Foster / John Wood/ Quietest Under the Sun , Museum Press London 1944; 21 x 27cms; an illustrated Guidebook to Mercia and Mid Wales for the literate rambler.
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Arthur Ransome/ Arthur Ransome/ Missee Lee, Cape, London, 1941 20 x27cms; a children’s fictitious adventure set off the coast of China; here with clear colour coded tracks that correspond exactly with the narrative.
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Joan Hassall/ Frances Brett Young/ Portrait of a Village Heinemann London 1937, 21 x 30cms. “I take this opportunity of declaring that no village like it [Monk’s Norton] has ever existed outside my imagination…” FBY
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A.M.Highes, J.K.Stanford, Bledgrave Hall, Country Book Club, London 1953, 20 x 27cms., and an account of efforts to encourage avocets to breed in the marshland around Bledgrave Hall.
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Melville Colley/Melville Colley/The Bamboo Bird, Press, London 1947, 25 x 35cms. an illustrated book for children , a Bamboo Bird hatches and saves Chinese twins from an Evil spell.
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George Him/ Ann Thwaite/ The Day with the Duke, Brockhampton Leicester 1969; an illustrated book for children about a girl and a boy who spend the day at a Stately Home - and are driven home in the carriage at the end of the Day. For George Him, see Archive
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Rockwell Kent/ Rockwell Kent , Wilderness A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, Blue Ribbon, New York 1920, 28 x 34 cms. Not so much a bird’s eye view but that of one of Kent’s idealised spirits.
