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Summary: fonstad's weakest atlas
Review: A definite must for any Donaldson reader! I can't imagine the amount of work that must have went into the construction of this book! The Land comes to life through meticulously researched and constructed illustrations and maps. Virtually all of the places presented in both the Covenant series are illustrated and scaled. Maps of Covenant's journey are drawn to scale and labeled to correspond to events in the series. A superbly researched and constructed work. The perfect companion to one of (if not the greatest) fantasy series of all time. Excellent excellent excellent! Since this book is out of print, if Amazon can't get one for you, go to EBay and bid on one. You can't fully appreciate the Covenant series without having read it with Karen's book at your side.
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Summary: What an excellent piece of work!
Review: A definite must for any Donaldson reader! I can't imagine the amount of work that must have went into the construction of this book! The Land comes to life through meticulously researched and constructed illustrations and maps. Virtually all of the places presented in both the Covenant series are illustrated and scaled. Maps of Covenant's journey are drawn to scale and labeled to correspond to events in the series. A superbly researched and constructed work. The perfect companion to one of (if not the greatest) fantasy series of all time. Excellent excellent excellent! Since this book is out of print, if Amazon can't get one for you, go to EBay and bid on one. You can't fully appreciate the Covenant series without having read it with Karen's book at your side.
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Summary: Great for Covenant fans, but worst of Fonstads atlases
Review: While any Thomas Covenant fan will undoubtedly enjoy this book, it is the least detailed of Fonstad's Atlases. No color and some of the pages are sparse on illustration. This is the Fonstad's first atlas (others being atlases of Pern, Middle-Earth and the Dragonlance world), and it shows in this atlas.On the other hand, it does do a great job on visualizing Donaldson's world, reguardless of comparison to the other atlases. Good book, but the other atlases are much better.
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Summary: Great for Covenant fans, but worst of Fonstads atlases
Review: While any Thomas Covenant fan will undoubtedly enjoy this book, it is the least detailed of Fonstad's Atlases. No color and some of the pages are sparse on illustration. This is the Fonstad's first atlas (others being atlases of Pern, Middle-Earth and the Dragonlance world), and it shows in this atlas. On the other hand, it does do a great job on visualizing Donaldson's world, reguardless of comparison to the other atlases. Good book, but the other atlases are much better.
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Summary: fonstad's weakest atlas
Review: while impressed with the ammount of detail that fonstad put into the middle-earth and dragonlance atlas', the atlas of the land seems almost bland in comparison (most likely because this was fonstad's first book). most of the pages have barely anything on them, and the maps confuse the time periods from both trilogies. the areas are listed by region, seemingly jumping around from place to place and time period to time period seemingly at random, rather than chronilogically from both the covenant books. even worse, there are hardly any cross-sections, which fonstad excelled at with the dragonlance atlas. what a pity. if you're a die-hard covenant fan, this may be worth an absolute maximum of $25, but otherwise you're best suited to your imagination - you will be dissapointed otherwise.
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