![]() ![]() In addition he provides detailed histories of the many fantasy islands that once studded the charts but have since vanished in the mist. In 640 articles the author reviews over a thousand accounts of this nature from the earliest times to the present day, resolving their complex bibliographical histories and providing biographies of their often elusive authors, many of whom are correctly identified and documented for the first time. ![]() ![]() In this intriguing final volume the author turns his attention to the curious but compelling alternative literature of exploration to imaginary, apocryphal and utopian journeys in fabulous lands and to the abundance of invented, plagiarized and spoof narratives, many of which were accepted in their time as wholly credible but were nothing more than flights of the imagination, blatant deceptions, or monologues of doubtful authenticity. The first four volumes of this highly acclaimed Encyclopedia dealt almost exclusively with voyages and travels of indisputable historical reality. ![]()
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