The phantom atlas : the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps
Edward Brooke-Hitching (Author)
"[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
Nonfiction
256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
9781452168401, 1452168407
1010505190
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
"First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., a CBS company"--Page 256