Tread in the footsteps of ancient heroes and heroines with An Atlas of Mythical Journeys, your fantastical guidebook to adventures otherwise lost to time.
Emily Hawkins is an award-winning author who has written more than 40 books for children. Her work combines a curiosity about history and the natural world with a love of myth, folklore and storytelling. Her best-known books include Oceanology, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and A Natural History of Fairies, illustrated by Jessica Roux, which has been translated into sixteen languages. She is the author of the much-loved Spin to Survive adventure series, and the Lost Atlases books of myths and legends. Emily spent much of her childhood searching for ghosts, and she’s still looking. She lives in rural Hampshire, with her husband and two daughters.
Iryna Dobrovetska is an artist from Odesa, Ukraine, who places her work within the space of magical realism, depicting beauty over warzone terrors. Deeply interested in Ukrainian customs and rituals, she feels that now, when the war is waged to destroy and deny Ukrainians their own ethnicity, language and sovereignty, it is more important than ever to preserve and share her country’s culture with the world.
