The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching

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The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching

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Résumé

A breakout bestseller in the UK, The Phantom Atlas is a beautifully produced volume, packed with maps, illustrations, and stories of places, people, and creatures that never existed – a treat for fans of maps, history, and exploration.

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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.

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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.

SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9781452168401
ISBN 10 1452168407
Titre The Phantom Atlas
Auteur Edward Brooke-Hitching
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Hardback
Éditeur Chronicle Books
Année de publication 2018-04-03
Nombre de pages 256
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Note Non disponible