No Longer on the Map: Discovering Places that Never WereIncludes material on El Dorado, Friesland, St. Brendan and Breasil, Seven Cities (Cibola, Quivira), the Northwest Passage, Greenland, Mayda. |
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Page 90
... claimed to have seen people on the islands going about commonplace daily tasks . Two distinguished men who claimed to have personally seen these islands were Thomas Otway , the famous Restoration dramatist , and Thomas J. Westropp , a ...
... claimed to have seen people on the islands going about commonplace daily tasks . Two distinguished men who claimed to have personally seen these islands were Thomas Otway , the famous Restoration dramatist , and Thomas J. Westropp , a ...
Page 137
... claimed that this was the cause of most deaths aboard galleons crossing the Pacific from the Philippines , and also that it had taken the lives of more than forty of Cabrillo's men , though there is noth- ing in Ferrelo's report on the ...
... claimed that this was the cause of most deaths aboard galleons crossing the Pacific from the Philippines , and also that it had taken the lives of more than forty of Cabrillo's men , though there is noth- ing in Ferrelo's report on the ...
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... claimed not only to have rediscovered , but also to have landed on , " Bouvette's Island " in 1824. This book ( now an underground classic of sea lore ) was so generally untrustworthy as to earn Morrell the sobriquet of " the biggest ...
... claimed not only to have rediscovered , but also to have landed on , " Bouvette's Island " in 1824. This book ( now an underground classic of sea lore ) was so generally untrustworthy as to earn Morrell the sobriquet of " the biggest ...
Contents
The Maybe of Mayda | 213 |
Three Special Cases | 223 |
Epilogue | 238 |
Copyright | |
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