Edward Brooke-Hitching’s new book,*The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (Simon & Schuster UK, November) is a book about fictitious and erroneous places that were presented on maps as real—“non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography.” Places like*the Mountains of Kong, or the open ocean at the North Pole, or California as an island. Both the*Economist’s 1843 Magazine*and the*Guardian have excerpts and examples from the book.The hardcover seems to be available only in the U.K. right now, or through third-party resellers on Amazon. The ebook, however, is more widely available: here are links for the Kindle and iBooks. [Ian McDonald/WMS]
Related: Map Books of 2016.
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