The Phantom Atlas (eBook)

The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

Edward Brooke-hitching (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
256 Seiten
Chronicle Books Llc (Verlag)
978-1-4521-6844-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.4.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Adventure • Ancient • armchair travel • Atlas Obscura • Atlas of Ancient Rome • book of general ignorance • Cartography • cool maps • Discovery • earth sciences • Educational Resources • Expedition • exploration • explorers • fake maps • Fiction • Geography • Ghosts • Historical Geography • Historical Maps • Historical Study • History • map • map book • Mystery • Mythology • Navigation • ODD • phenomenon • Prisoners of Geography • Reference • Strange • Thing Explainer • undiscovered • Unexplained • Weird • weird maps • What If
• ISBN-10: 1-4521-6844-X / 145216844X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4521-6844-9 / 9781452168449