Title: The phantom atlas
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.
Subjects: Maps, Cartography, Scientific Errors, Miscellanea, Geographical myths, Discoveries in geography, History, Cartography, history, Errors, scientific