The phantom atlas
Subtitle: the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781452168401
Subjects: Maps; Cartography; Scientific Errors; Miscellanea; Geographical myths; Discoveries in geography; History
Description: "[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.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., a CBS company"--Page 256.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Strait of Anian; title: Antillia; title: Atlantis; title: Aurora Islands; title: Australia's inland sea; title: Bermeja; title: Bradley Land; title: Buss Island; title: City of the Caesars; title: Sea monsters of the Carta Marina; title: Island of California; title: Cassiterides; title: Crocker Land; title: Croker's Mountains; title: Davis Land; title: Isle of Demons; title: Dougherty Island; title: Earthly Paradise; title: El Dorado; title: Flat Earth; title: Fonseca; title: Formosa (of George Psalmanazar); title: Fusang; title: Gamaland and Compagnies Land; title: Great Ireland; title: Great River of the West; title: Groclant; title: Hy Brasil; title: Java la Grande; title: Juan de Lisboa; title: Lost City of the Kalahari; title: Mountains of Kong; title: Korea as an island; title: Lost continents of Lemuria and Mu; title: Maria Theresa Reef; title: Mayda; title: Mountains of the Moon; title: Lands of Benjamin Morrell; title: Norumbega; title: Creatures of the Nuremberg Chronicle Map; title: Patagonian Giants; title: Pepys Island; title: Territory of Poyais; title: Kingdom of Prester John; title: Rhipaean Mountains; title: Rupes Nigra; title: St. Brendan's Island; title: Sandy Island, New Caledonia; title: Sannikov Land; title: Satanazes; title: Saxenburgh Island; title: Sea of the West; title: Taprobana; title: Terra Australis; title: Thule; title: Sunken City of Vineta; title: Wak-Wak; title: Phantom Lands of the Zeno Map.