Diese epische Serie nimmt die Leser mit auf eine außergewöhnliche Reise durch einen Atlas aller bekannten Länder, Mythen und Legenden. Drei ungleiche Gefährten werden zu Hütern des Imaginarium Geographica, einem Hort der Vorstellungskraft selbst. Sie reisen in einem fantastischen Schiff durch verschiedene Realitäten, begegnen mythischen Kreaturen und stellen sich dunklen Mächten entgegen, die mehrere Welten bedrohen. Es ist ein Abenteuer über die Macht des Glaubens, die Bande der Freundschaft und die Anfänge legendärer Geschichtenerzähler.
Drei junge Männer werden während des 1. Weltkriegs in London durch einen Mordfall und einen mysteriösen Fremden zu den neuen Hütern des Imaginarium Geographica, einem magischen Atlas. Ihre Reise voller Gefahren lässt sie zu berühmten Geschichtenerzählern wie Tolkien und Lewis reifen. Illustriert vom Autor.
Neue Gefahren im Königreich der Fantasie Neun Jahre, nachdem John, Jack und Charles die Hüter der Imaginarium Geographica wurden, müssen sie zurück zum Archipel der Träume, denn jemand entführt alle Kinder, die dort leben! Der einzige Hinweis, den die Freunde haben, ist eine Botschaft, die ihnen ein kleines Mädchen mit künstlichen Flügeln überbringt: „Der Kreuzzug hat begonnen.“ John, Jack und Charles entdecken, dass auch die Drachenschiffe mit den Kindern verschwunden sind. Ihre einzige Chance, die Welt vor einer jahrhundertealten Verschwörung zu retten, besteht darin, das letzte der Drachenschiffe zu finden, den Roten Drachen. Ihre Suche führt sie durch atemberaubende mythische Welten und an den Ursprung einer der ältesten Geschichten der Welt: der Geschichte von den verlorenen Kindern. • Der zweite Band der magischen und aufregenden Reise ins Reich der Fantasie • Großartige, hintersinnige Unterhaltung für jugendliche wie erwachsene Fantasy-Fans • Aufwändig ausgestattet, mit wunderschönen Illustrationen des Autors
"'The Crusade has begun'..."There's an old myth in the Archipelago," he went on softly, shaking his head. "A legend, really...I recall it mentioned a Crusade, but those events happened seven centuries ago. We always thought it was only a story."It has been nine years since John, Jack, and Charles had their great adventure in the Archipelago of Dreams and became the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica. Now they have been brought together again to solve a Someone is kidnapping the children of the Archipelago. And their only clue is a mysterious message delivered by a strange girl with artificial "The Crusade has begun." Worse, they discover that all of the legendary Dragonships have disappeared as well.The only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be.
John and Jack are mystified when they discover a cryptic warning on a medieval manuscript—a warning that is not only addressed to them, but seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson. But before they can discover the origins of the book, Hugo walks through a door in time—and vanishes into the past.In that moment, the world begins to change. Now, the Archipelago of Dreams and our world both suffer under the reign of the cruel and terrible Winter King. Dark beasts roam the countryside, and terror rules the land.John and Jack must travel back in time—from the Bronze Age to the library in ancient Alexandria to the founding of the Silver Throne—to find the only thing that can save their friend and restore both words. The solution lies in the answer to a 2,000-year-old mystery: Who is the Cartographer?
The Winter King's Shadow, having gained control of the doors from the Keep of Time and of an army of Dragon Shadows, plans to use the turmoil of World War II to conquer worlds, but all Caretakers, past and present, come together to stop him, using some unlikely weapons
When John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams, they encounter an apparent splintering of Time itself and set off on a new quest in which success and failure each carry a high cost.
The Archipelago of Dreams is no more…but the battle to save it has just begun in the penultimate book in the acclaimed Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series. The Caretakers are at war. The Archipelago of Dreams has fallen to the Echthroi, and the link to the Summer Country has been lost. The Keep of Time must be rebuilt, and the secret lies somewhere in Deep Time at the beginnings of the World, when the Summer Country and the Archipelago were one and the same. Fortunately, there is still hope: the Grail child, Rose Dyson, and the new Cartographer Edmund McGee have learned how to map time, and through a precarious balance of travel to the past and the future, they have a chance of repairing the present. Rife with allusions to history’s great literary figures and personalities, from Gilgamesh and Medea to Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells, this absorbing adventure, the sixth in the Imaginarium Geographica series, leads its heroes to a land where all secrets may be found: Known at the beginning of time as the City of Jade, history came to call it Atlantis. And it is there that the Architect of the Keep may have trained the young angel who built the city—an angel named Samaranth.
With the Archipelago of Dreams in the hands of the Echthroi and the link to the Summer Country lost, the Grail child, Rose Dyson, the new Cartographer, Edmund McGee, and the Caretakers Emeritus seek to rebuild the Keep of Time but face a terrible new enemy who was once an ally. Illustrations.