Corwin's Shadow Earth
Travels & Timeline

An accounting of all the times and locations where we can definitively pinpoint Corwin during his exile on Shadow Earth, based upon references in the Amber novels.

(For the sake of anchoring the timeline, 1970 (the year NPIA is published) is arbitrarily chosen as the year Corwin's tires are shot out.)

c. 1590

London
Corwin arrives amid the Plague, during the reign of Elizabeth I
He gets drunk with Shakespeare

c. 1675

Holland
Corwin is in the Franco-Dutch War, composes Aupres de ma Blonde

c. 1790

Paris
Corwin is spotted by Flora at Focault's party

c. 1793

Paris
Corwin flees the French Revolution

c. 1795-1800

Modern Day Ohio
Corwin takes scalps in the Western Reserve

1812

Russia
Corwin serves under Napoleon during the campaign against Russia

c. 1861-64

near Virginia
Corwin serves under General Lee in the US Civil War

c. 1871

Alsace, France
In the Franco-Prussian War, Corwin is lefft parapalegic

1905

Paris
Corwin recalls the chestnut trees on the Champs Elysees, playing chess with actors

1920's

Berlin
Corwin is in Berlin in the '20's.

1930's

Pacific
Corwin is in "the Pacific" in the '30's.

(This is a strange break in the Paris > Berlin > Vienna > Zurch > Poland sequence)

1934

Vienna, Austria
Corwin watches Stephen Spender recite Vienna

1941

Zurich, Switzerland
Corwin attends the premier of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

c. 1940-1945

Auschwitz, Poland
Corwin witnesses the dead at Auschwitz

c. 1950-1953

South Korea
Corwin fights for General MacArthur

c. 1960

Vandenberg, California (near Santa Barbara)
Corwin watches rocket launches from the missile base

c. 1960

Albany, NY, USA
Corwin purchases a house in the suburbs and befriends Bill Roth

c. 1969

Brussels, Belgium
Corwin is working on an arms deal with Arthur

*1970

Albany, NY, USA
Escaping Porter Sanitarium, Corwin gets his tires shot out and lands in Greenwood

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