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

by **Edward Brooke-Hitching** (Author)

**Discover the mysteries within ancient maps -- Where exploration and mythology meet**

This 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_**

### Author Biography

Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector and author of _Fox Tossing: And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes and Games_. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a writer for the popular BBC TV show QI, he lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 9.7 x 7.5 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 03, 2018

## Details

- **Price:** 35.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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## Variants

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