#  Peter X. Accardo, Houghton Library, and David Weimer, Harvard Map Collection: "Landmarks: Maps as Literary Illustration" (Curatorial Talk) 

 



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 **March 8, 2018** 

 05:30PM - 06:15PM EST 

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 **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



 

 



 

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