- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Discover the mysteries within ancient maps â Where exploration and mythology meet
This richly illustrated 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.
Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas 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.
Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet.
Cartography's greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms.
If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas
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INDEX
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Strait of Anian
- Antillia
- Atlantis
- Aurora Islands
- Australiaâs Inland Sea
- Bermeja
- Bradley Land
- Buss Island
- City of the Caesars
- Sea Monsters of the Carta Marina
- Island of California
- Cassiterides
- Crocker Land
- Crokerâs Mountains
- Davis Land
- Isle of Demons
- Earthly Paradise
- El Dorado
- Flat Earth
- Fonseca
- Fusang
- 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
- 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 Brendanâs 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
- About the Author
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