C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia is a classic work of Twentieth Century British children’s literature. Here we compare two of the novels - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Magician's Nephew. Though the books contain events which happen initially in the ‘real’ world that is recognisably that of London, England and the British boarding school, they are principally set in the fantasy world of Narnia. They represent classic examples of a 'bridged' text (in spatial terms) in which the fantasy world is entered through a portal that takes the children away from real world place and space, but this is also returned to at the end. As such they present a straightforward challenge to literary geography, in that the majority of the places which they describe cannot be mapped in the conventional sense.

As the visualisations of The Magician’s Nephew and  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader show, they are highly spatial texts. Both books describe journeys. The Magician’s Nephew, as the origin story for the series, depicts one real and three fantasy worlds as the children find their way from London to the suspended space of the 'The Wood Between the Worlds' and from there to Narnia. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as the name suggests involves an ocean expedition away from Narnia itself to the edge of the world. Though the journeys they describe are very different, these visualisations demonstrate the importance of interstitial or liminal spaces to each narrative.