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Where geography, navigation and fantasy meet,
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I have been intrigued by the persistence of apparently imaginary islands on atlases and navigational charts of the Atlantic. They have persisted there for three hundred years--well past the age when explorers had pretty well covered all the uncharted areas and provided data for reliable cartographers. My interest was sparked by reading geographer William Babcock's pioneering study Legendary Islands of the Atlantic, published in 1922. Dr. Fuson has provided a worthy successor and update of that book. The Blessed Isles/Fortunate Isles have been magnets for religious mystics and explorers since before Homer wrote the Odyssey and Plato framed his Atlantis allegory, neither of them intending to send explorers to the edges of the earth to find them. Robert Fuson has made a valiant effort to find out how and why these places continued to appear in various places on sea charts up to the 1860s.
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Legendary Islands of the Ocean Sea by Robert Henderson Fuson (Hardcover - April 1, 1995)
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