Phantom Islands of the AtlanticIn Phantom Islands of the Atlantic, Donald Johnson tells the strange stories of nonexistent islands that were nevertheless claimed for various European countries, described and carefully mapped. Johnson has tested the technology available to the cartographers, navigators and writers who documented these phantom islands. He has discovered what they knew of history, studied their legends, explored their faith, and traced how they expanded the limits of understanding. |
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Page 134
... legend did not die , probably because of one more element in the tale : sand brought back for use in the cooking hearth of the ship turned out to be one - third gold . There is nothing like the promise of wealth to perpetuate a legend ...
... legend did not die , probably because of one more element in the tale : sand brought back for use in the cooking hearth of the ship turned out to be one - third gold . There is nothing like the promise of wealth to perpetuate a legend ...
Page 174
... legend . Genoa , the city of his birth and his home until he moved to Lisbon in 1477 , was also the abode of Jacobus de Voragine , the author of The Golden Legend . He produced a great number of works , but his compilation of the legends ...
... legend . Genoa , the city of his birth and his home until he moved to Lisbon in 1477 , was also the abode of Jacobus de Voragine , the author of The Golden Legend . He produced a great number of works , but his compilation of the legends ...
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... Legend of Saint Brendan The life of Brendan and the legend of Brendan are two separate entities , and although it isn't known when the legend began , at least the facts from which it evolved have been documented . Brendan was not a ...
... Legend of Saint Brendan The life of Brendan and the legend of Brendan are two separate entities , and although it isn't known when the legend began , at least the facts from which it evolved have been documented . Brendan was not a ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Introduction | 13 |
Rediscovery of the Atlantic Archipelagos | 67 |
Copyright | |
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Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands that Never Were Donald S. Johnson No preview available - 1999 |
Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands that Never Were Donald S. Johnson No preview available - 1997 |
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