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Mythical Places Bibliography
Fritze, Ronald H. Travel Legend and Lore. ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-87436-759-X. (An encyclopedia of people and legendary places, very comprehensive and well written.)
Hyde, Walter W. Ancient Greek Mariners. Oxford University Press-New York. 1947
Johnson, Donald S. Phantom Islands of the Atlantic. Walker and Company, 1996. ISBN 0-8027-1320-3. (Excellent book, well-written and covers the stories of the Atlantic Islands in great depth.)
Latham, Ronald. The Travels of Marco Polo. Penguin Books, 1958. ISBN 0-14-044057-7.
Moseley, C.W.R.D. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. Penguin Books, 1983. ISBN 0-14-044435-1.
Rackham, H. Pliny Natural History, Volume II. Harvard University Press, 1942.
Ramsay, Raymond H. No Longer on the Map. Ballantine Books, 1972. SBN 345-23421-9-165. (One of the most comprehensive books about all of the legendary places.)
Tozer, H.F. A History of Ancient Geography. Cambridge University Press, 1897.
Van Duzer, Chet. Floating Islands- a Global Bibliography. Cantor Press, California, 2004. ISBN 0-9755424-0-0 more at: http://www.cantorpress.com/floatingislands/default.htm
Van Duzer, Chet, “The Mythology of the Northern Polar Regions: Inventio fortunata and Buddhist Cosmology,” At the Edge: Exploring New Interpretations of Past and Place in Archaeology, Folklore, and Mythology 9 (March, 1998), pp. 8-16.
LINKS:
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/ - probably the best site out there on ancient maps.
http://www.nypl.org/utopia/links.html#sources - good source on a variety of utopian texts.
