256 pages
English language
Published April 13, 2018
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"[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