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The Phantom atlas: the Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders On Maps
[Hardback - 2016]
edward brooke-hitching
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Category: Reference
Sub-category: Atlases
Additional Category: World History
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Uk | ISBN: 9781471159459 | Pages: 0
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Nine-foot giants were once thought to stalk the Patagonian landscape. The Island of California was known to drift off the coast of North America, The Mountains of Kong were believed to stretch across the continent of Africa. With fascinating stories and beautiful Illustrations, this unique atlas gathers together the wildest misbeliefs ever drawn on maps, revealing the world as it existed purely in the imaginations of our ancestors. Book jacket.

About the Author

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling trilogy The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018) and The Sky Atlas (2019), as well as The Madman s Library (2020), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in London.

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