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So today I got my first edition of Flight of the Heron, and it's lovely! ♥ I didn't get it just because I wanted one, though I admit it is satisfying--it's for reading the audiobook from, because Librivox is strict about copyright. Anyway, look at this beautiful map on the inside of the front cover! I haven't seen that in any of the later editions.

beautiful map of the Great Glen area from first edition of Flight of the Heron

It has the position of Ardroy and Loch na h-Iolaire marked, which is of course very helpful, since they are made up by the author. I mean, you can figure out the general position from the books anyway, but it's good to get a more specific one. I see which (actually existing) pass they're going over in Chapter 1 now, which I'd been confused about. Here is the modern Ordnance Survey map for reference, and here is the 18th century Roy military survey map of the same area, which...doesn't look like they really got those mountains right.

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Date: 2020-02-25 08:58 pm (UTC)
regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)
From: [personal profile] regshoe
Ohhh, that's amazing :D That map is lovely, and as you say very useful to get the geography worked out—I wish they'd kept it in the later editions! I shall really have to get my hands on one of these...

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Date: 2020-02-25 09:37 pm (UTC)
isis: (Default)
From: [personal profile] isis
Ooh! Yay maps!

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Date: 2020-02-25 10:20 pm (UTC)
ride_4ever: (Some Like It Scot)
From: [personal profile] ride_4ever
You're going to Scotland this summer?! Woo hoo!

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Date: 2020-02-25 10:03 pm (UTC)
philomytha: airplane flying over romantic castle (Default)
From: [personal profile] philomytha
I remember spending ages with a map of Scotland the first time I read FotH trying to figure out where everything was, I'm glad I'm not the only one. That's a beautiful book. (Also, hi! Coincidentally I have actually reread this book today because I just recced it to another friend and was in the right frame of mind for it.)

Lovely maps!

Date: 2020-02-25 11:04 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: Alana of Staples/Vaughn SAGA comic (alanna amazed)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Are you going to narrate it for Librivox?

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Date: 2020-02-25 11:37 pm (UTC)
seascribble: the view of boba fett's codpiece and smoking blaster from if you were on the ground (Default)
From: [personal profile] seascribble
Wait, you're reading an audiobook?!

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Date: 2020-02-28 11:49 pm (UTC)
seascribble: the view of boba fett's codpiece and smoking blaster from if you were on the ground (Default)
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Ohhhhhhhh, I see. That is very cool!

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Date: 2020-02-26 12:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cyphomandra
Yay for your first edition with map!! I actually can’t remember if mine has one, will have to check when I’m back this weekend. I think not as I remember when much younger spending an afternoon with the Shell roadside map book of the British Isles working out everyone’s route...

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Date: 2020-02-27 11:07 am (UTC)
hyarrowen: (Vic Roads)
From: [personal profile] hyarrowen
Oh, that's beautiful! And so handy, too - there must surely be some reason why it wasn't included in later editions.

I dithered between the first edition and an illustrated edition with a posh blue binding and gold tooling on the cover. I was a bit disappointed with the illustrations - not enough pics of Keith - also it was printed in Switzerland and there are quite a few typos. It looks nice, though.

I might have to get the first edition as well, brining me up to four copies. Plus your audiobook when you've done it!

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Date: 2020-03-25 07:08 pm (UTC)
garonne: (cardigan)
From: [personal profile] garonne
Thanks so much for posting this! When I was reading I couldn't quite figure out where Ardroy is supposed to be.

The link to the Roy military survey map is very interesting too. I remember reading elsewhere that the south of England wasn't properly mapped until the start of the 19th century, in reaction to fears of a French invasion, and before that you basically had to already know the area or ask for directions to get around the country. According to what I read in Wikipedia just now that Roy military map was made in direct reaction to the Jacobite rebellion in 45. Very interesting. And it explains how Keith managed to get lost on the way to Fort Augustus! ;D
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