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b)
Figure 1:
a) Stevenson's map of Treasure Island, b) Haggard's King Solomon's mines map.
Advantages of sketch maps with landmarks in place of detailed topography
for navigation are discussed for example in Staněk and Friedmannová
(2007). In context of cinematography, it can be compared to flyovers used
in movies as a visual shortcut of the movie plot's movement from one des-
tination to the other. Only landmarks significant for orientation or the plot
are perceptible due to deceleration of the camera movement. For example
in the movie Mummy Returns (2001), progress through entire Egypt is
marked only by four places - Giza Pyramids, the Karnak temple, the
Philae temple and the temple of Abu Simbel.
As the topic is written as a kind of diary, it follows the progress travellers
are doing through narrator's commentary by comparing their position in
reality with the map. On the original map, there is no scale, only north
indicator; however, the map was plainly drawn in scale, as there are annota-
tions in text (
“…the desert is marked as measuring forty leagues
across…”
).
