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[2020·¹ãÖÝÊÐÆÕͨ¸ßÖбÏÒµ°à×ۺϲâÊÔ(Ò»)]A special delight for many book lovers is to open a cover to find a map secreted (Òþ²Ø) inside. It is filled with the details of a land about to be  __1__. A writer's map hints at a fully imagined world. At the beginning of a book, it's a promise of what is to come. In the middle, it's a guide through the fictional environment.  And at the end, a map is a    __2__ of all the places the   __3__   has taken you to.

A new book, The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, contains dozens of  __4__ maps. Some were drawn by  __5__£¬ and others were made by artists to   __6__   places that writers have   __7__£¬    in their stories.  “All maps are products of human  __8__£¬”  said Huw Lewis­Jones, the book's editor.  “For some writers, making a map is absolutely   __9__   to shaping and telling their tales.”

The book features essays by authors and mapmakers, many of whom    __10__    Treasure Island, a novel about a magical treasure hunting  __11__   on the sea. It contains one of the most well­known __12__   in literature.  The author first sketched the map for his stepson. A red X  __13__  the place where the treasure was  __14__.

    The  __15__   of Treasure Island inspired other writers to   __16__  maps in their own stories. This is an experience   __17__ shared by map­loving writers.  For some writers, map making is a   __18__  way to pull themselves into their own works.  “I always __19__  my way into stories£¬”  wrote Abi Elphinstone,  author of The Dreamsnatcher. “I begin every story by drawing a map because it is only when my   __20__   start moving from place to place that a plot unfolds.”

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