The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching

The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching

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 civilisations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colourful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Author Edward Brooke-Hitching investigates the places where exploration and mythology meet, using gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of the deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms.

Edward Brooke-Hitching is an author, documentary filmmaker, and incurable cartophile. The son of an antiquarian book dealer, he lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London.

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ISBN 13	9781452168401
ISBN 10	1452168407
Title	The Phantom Atlas
Author	Edward Brooke-Hitching
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Chronicle Books
Year published	2018-04-03
Number of pages	256
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