Peter X. Accardo, Houghton Library, and David Weimer, Harvard Map Collection: "Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration" (Curatorial Talk)
Date and Time
March 28, 2018
12:30PM - 01:15PM EDT
Location
Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard
Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration
Curatorial Talk
Discover over sixty landmark literary maps that have oriented readers for centuries, bringing to life imagined places from Thomas More’s Utopian island to the Stillness supercontinent in N. K. Jemisin’s award-winning science fantasy The Fifth Season.
Join exhibition curator Peter X. Accardo, Houghton Library, and David Weimer, Librarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning at the Harvard Map Collection, for a tour of the exhibition.
Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room
Wednesday, February 14, 12:30-1:15pm
Thursday, March 8, 5:30-6:15pm
Thursday, March 22, 5:30-6:15pm
Wednesday, March 28, 12:30-1:15pm