Title:
The phantom atlas : the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps / Edward Brooke-Hitching.
ISBN:
9781452168401
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2018.
©2018
Physical Description:
256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., a CBS company"--Page 256.
Contents:
Introduction -- Strait of Anian -- Antillia -- Atlantis -- Aurora Islands -- Australia's inland sea -- Bermeja -- Bradley Land -- Buss Island -- City of the Caesars -- Sea monsters of the Carta Marina -- Island of California -- Cassiterides -- Crocker Land -- Croker's Mountains -- Davis Land -- Isle of Demons -- Dougherty Island -- Earthly Paradise -- El Dorado -- Flat Earth -- Fonseca -- Formosa (of George Psalmanazar) -- Fusang -- Gamaland and Compagnies Land -- Great Ireland -- Great River of the West -- Groclant -- Hy Brasil -- Java la Grande -- Juan de Lisboa -- Lost City of the Kalahari -- Mountains of Kong -- Korea as an island -- Lost continents of Lemuria and Mu -- Maria Theresa Reef -- Mayda -- Mountains of the Moon -- Lands of Benjamin Morrell -- Norumbega -- Creatures of the Nuremberg Chronicle Map -- Patagonian Giants -- Pepys Island -- Territory of Poyais -- Kingdom of Prester John -- Rhipaean Mountains -- Rupes Nigra -- St. Brendan's Island -- Sandy Island, New Caledonia -- Sannikov Land -- Satanazes -- Saxenburgh Island -- Sea of the West -- Taprobana -- Terra Australis -- Thule -- Sunken City of Vineta -- Wak-Wak -- Phantom Lands of the Zeno Map.
Summary:
"[This book] is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. This ... book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true"--Amazon.com.
OCLC Number:
on1010505190
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