Embárcate en un viaje extraordinario a través de un atlas de todas las tierras, mitos y leyendas jamás conocidas. Esta serie sigue a tres compañeros improbables que se ven obligados a ser guardianes del Imaginarium Geographica, un depósito de la imaginación en sí mismo. Viajan a través de realidades a bordo de una nave fantástica, encontrándose con criaturas míticas y enfrentándose a fuerzas oscuras que amenazan múltiples mundos. Es una aventura que explora el poder de la creencia, los lazos de la amistad y los orígenes de los narradores legendarios.
Un profesor de Oxford muere en extrañas circunstancias y uno de sus discípulos recibe lo que parece ha sido el móvil del crimen, un curioso ejemplar de atlas, Imaginarium Geographica. Perseguido por feroces wendigos él y sus dos compañeros de viaje huyen hacia donde se dibuja la línea del fin del mundo: la Tierra de Dragones. Esta es la auténtica aventura jamás contada de cómo tres de los más grandes cartógrafos del universo fantástico llegaron hasta los confines del mundo y descubrieron qué esconde la tierra donde todo puede suceder y cómo son los oscuros seres que la habitan.
"'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.
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.
