# The Phantom Atlas

- **Brand:** Chronicle Books
- **Price:** $29.95
- **Catalog:** chroniclebooks
- **Retailer:** chroniclebooks
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- **GTIN:** 9781452168401
- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching, a richly illustrated non-fiction book exploring the myths and blunders of ancient maps, featuring a colorful vintage-style map cover.

## Description

Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meetThis 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

## Variants

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Non-Fiction

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 9781452168401
- **Size:** 8 x 10
- **tags:** Chronicle Books, Discount-OK, ENT:Fiction, ENT:General Non-Fiction, Filter:Category_Entertainment, Filter:Category_Gifts, Filter:Type_Books, Filter:Type_Gifts, Gift:Father's Day Gifts
- **Pages:** 256
- **Format:** Hardcover
- **author:** Edward Brooke-Hitching
- **vendor:** Chronicle Books
- **subtitle:** The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
- **product type:** Non-Fiction
- **shopify handle:** the-phantom-atlas
- **Publication Date:** 4/3/2018

## Enrichment

- **Type:** book
- **Type Synonyms:** hardcover, non-fiction book
- **Tags:** illustrated, antique map print, cartography, educational, colorful
- **Styles:** vintage-inspired, academic
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Genre:** History, Travel
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Canonical Brand:** Chronicle Books

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/558f98f06b73cc478a3fdd51baf9b7b1/4de204cd3d4d931df054372b0529de55.webp)

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