{"id":1784831,"date":"2018-01-22T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1784831"},"modified":"2018-01-22T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:33:36","slug":"more-on-two-books-about-nonexistent-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/more-on-two-books-about-nonexistent-places\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Two Books About Nonexistent Places"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The <\/div> <\/div>
\"undiscovered-islands-us\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Two items on books about nonexistent places on maps and other map errors, each of which we’ve heard of before:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/em> has a piece<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps<\/em><\/a> by Edward Brooke-Hitching, which came out in the U.K. in late 2016 (previously<\/a>); that edition<\/a> is available via Amazon on the U.S. and Canada, but a separate U.S. edition<\/a> is coming in April from Chronicle<\/a>. [WMS<\/a>]<\/li>\n
  2. Meanwhile, at\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>\u2019s All Over the Map blog<\/a>, Greg Miller takes a look at\u00a0The Un-Discovered Islands<\/em><\/a>, Malachy Tallack’s book about phantom islands: places once thought real, but later proven nonexistent. Like\u00a0The Phantom Atlas<\/em>, it first saw publication in 2016; its U.S. edition<\/a> came out last November (previously<\/a>). Miller’s piece includes examples of such nonexistent places on maps from the Osher Map Library.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two items on books about nonexistent places on maps and other map errors, each of which we’ve heard of before: The Santa Fe New Mexican has a piece\u00a0on\u00a0The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,110],"tags":[30,111],"class_list":["post-1784831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-map-errors","tag-books","tag-phantom-islands","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785487,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/new-and-reissued-books-for-april-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":1784831,"position":0},"title":"New and Reissued Books for April 2018","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"New Editions The third edition of Mark Monmonier's classic\u00a0How to Lie with Maps (University of Chicago Press, 1o April) \"includes significant updates throughout as well as new chapters on image maps, prohibitive cartography, and online maps. 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