The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

<h3><strong>Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet</strong></h3><p>This 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.</p><p><strong>Mysteries within ancient maps:</strong> 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.</p><p><strong>Where exploration and mythology meet:</strong> 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.</p><p><strong>Cartography’s greatest phantoms: </strong><em>The Phantom Atlas</em> uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms.</p><p><strong>If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as <em>Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer,</em> your will love <em>The Phantom Atlas</em></strong></p>