Synopsis
These Atlas are guides to the world
not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. The book uses
gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers,
seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind
cartography's greatest phantoms.
About Edward Brooke-Hitching
He is the son of an antiquarian book
and map dealer. Before taking up writing he worked for a London
auctioneering company and spent six years as a fact-finder and scriptwriter for the BBC TV
show QI. His work has featured in the Guardian, the London Times, the
Wall Street Journal, the Literary Review, the Spectator, the Economist,
the Washington Post and others.
内容简介
人类地理文化史上最大的神话、谎言和谬误大全。
第一本精辟分析历史上从未被整理、探索的古地图真相之谜图鉴，122幅珍稀古地图，探索57个地图史上最神秘离奇的幽灵之地，揭开空前绝后的奇幻地图大谜团，奇幻巨作，想象瑰丽，堪称世界版《山海经》。
英国皇家地理学会会士、著名地图专家
爱德华•布鲁克-海钦重磅作品，《时代周刊》《卫报》《泰晤士报》《旁观者》高度赞赏、诚挚推荐，多学科、全方位趣谈奇幻隐幽的全球秘境。
——转自豆瓣网
