![]() ![]() Only the motifs of the map’s border – doves and hearts in the style of Eastern European embroidery – give a clue to the wider setting: the great plain of Hungary. To the west is the Home of the Good Master with its well-kept fences and expansive farm buildings to the north are the corrals of the Horse Herds to the north-east lie the little church and houses of the Village to the east are the old Mill and an outpost mysteriously labelled ‘Toepincher’. The endpapers of The Good Master (1935) contain such a map, realized by its author Kate Seredy. The Hobbit, Treasure Island, Prince Caspian – their neatly drawn coastlines, mountains and compass points were promises of worlds imagined so fully that the reader could, should he wish, leave the story behind and strike out across country on his own. ![]() As a child I was always reassured by books which contained maps. ![]()
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