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A wide-ranging study of travel tales and legendary geography that examines how imagination, rumor, and distance shaped former understandings of the world and its inhabitants. The material is organized by realms—landscapes and inanimate nature, animals and fabulous beasts, sea creatures, and marvelous human communities—so readers encounter islands of enchantment, lost continents, dragons, and prodigious peoples as recurring motifs. The author juxtaposes mythic accounts with maps and travel reports to show how cultural exchange and ignorance produced hybrid geographies. He concludes by considering the social functions of such fables and offers a bibliography to guide further study.

Bibliography

In preparing this book the works most frequently consulted have been Pliny’s Natural History, Browne’s Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, Beazley’s Dawn of Modern Geography, Frazer’s Golden Bough, Tylor’s Primitive Culture, Hakluyt’s Principal Voyages of the English Nation, and Pinkerton’s Collection of Voyages and Travels. Both the Hakluyt and Pinkerton collections are libraries in themselves, each with some hundreds of titles, and the travel narratives they contain will not be separately listed here.

Following are the main sources drawn upon for the materials of this study:

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