Firestone surveys what travellers once believed lay at the edges of the map, from Herodotus and Pliny to Marco Polo and Mandeville. Chapters cover the shape of the earth, fabulous beasts and birds, dragons and sea monsters, satyrs, pygmies, Amazons of legend and history, and the lost lands and islands of the western ocean.
A learned and entertaining tour of geographical myth for anyone who loves old maps. Download the free EPUB.