The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Hildegard of Bingen Record Mirror

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and runs beneath some of London’s most iconic and historic sites

In medieval and early modern Europe

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The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin Hildegard of Bingen Record MirrorWhen Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re envision our own.  Le Guins maps offer journeys of consciousness beyond conventional cartography, from the Rorschach like archipelagos of Earthsea to the talismanic maps of Always