{"product_id":"b0775sg386","title":"The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (The Phantom Atlas Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54089904816491,"sku":"YSL17912","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/A1HFP3o6feL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792133027","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0775sg386","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}