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The Phantom Atlas - The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (Hardcover)
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The Phantom Atlas - The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (Hardcover)
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Discover the mysteries within ancient maps - Where exploration and
mythology meetThis 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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