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

Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Edward Brooke-Hitching
جزئیات
فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF ناشر: Chronicle Books LLC; Illustrated edition (April 3, 2018) تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : April 3, 2018
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لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0775SG386
توضیحات
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 Atlasuses 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 asPrisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer,your will loveThe Phantom Atlas
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