Posted by Robert Hill on July 20, 1999 at 12:37:18 from 129.11.153.35 via proxy proxy1.leeds.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Re: The Real Broads posted by Robert Dilley on July 19, 1999 at 18:40:31:
What about Secret Water? I'm not familiar with the area but I
understood that that was very true to the actual geography. The shapes
of the islands and channels correspond well between the map in the
book and the OS map. He merely avoids using real placenames.
Didn't somebody say here a few months ago that AR came to regret the
extent of the adjustments he had made to geography in the early lake
books? If so, then by time he came to write the East Anglia books
he may have decided on a policy of not altering geography unless he
had to. But in the later lake books he obviously had to remain
consistent with the earlier ones.
This leaves Missee Lee and Great Northern? to be explained. But they
differ from the lake and East Anglia books in not being based on places
that he knew well, so perhaps he felt less constrained about them.