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Plainview, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1975]
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This is a study in medieval geography relating to the Western Ocean, including Greenland, Brazil, Corvo, Antilla, Atlantis, the Seven Cities, Mavda, Markland, Estotiland, St. Brendan's Explorations and Islands; The Sunken Land of Buss and other mysterious places - some of which were on official naval charts as recently as the beginning of the 19th century. Originally published in 1922 by the American Geographical Society, it covers the lore, myth, legend, and evidence of Legendary Islands of the Atlantic.
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LibraryThing member AndreasJ
About Atlantis, St Brendan's Island, Antillia, the Sunken Land of Buss, and other imaginary islands that medieval and early modern Europeans thought lie, or once lay, somewhere out in the Atlantic. Discusses the development of the legends, the mark they left on surviving maps, and the possible
The book is from 1922; I read it in a 2015 reprint apparently made by scanning the original. The text has survived without suffering anything worse than an occasional slight haziness, but the illustrations of old maps are sadly pretty much ruined.
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reality, if any, behind the islands. While very much a romantic wanting to believe legendary islands reflect ancient voyages and discoveries, Babcock is fairly levelheaded and refrains from insisting his pet conjectures are provable. He also deals with a few islands that undoubtedly exist but whose cartographic history has been embellished by legend, notably Greenland and Corvo (the second westernmost of the Azores).The book is from 1922; I read it in a 2015 reprint apparently made by scanning the original. The text has survived without suffering anything worse than an occasional slight haziness, but the illustrations of old maps are sadly pretty much ruined.
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1922
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196 p.; 20 cm
ISBN
0836969634 / 9780836969634