The Phantom Atlas: Uncovering the Myths, Lies and Blunders Hidden in Maps

Steve Flack: It's a lot of fun for anyone who loves real history and geography and I learned a lot from it.

United States on Sep 09, 2023

Violet Bunny: A fun book for folks like me who love looking at maps, whether accurate or not.

United States on Aug 12, 2023

Amazon Kunde: Großartiges Buch! Habe die ganze Serie bestellt :)

Germany on Aug 05, 2023

Brian K. Stacey: It's his birthday soon and I know my partner will really like this!

United Kingdom on Jul 05, 2023

S. Grein: Bought as an Xmas present, lovely book

United Kingdom on Jun 21, 2023

: She loved it. Great gift for those with an interest in this genre

United Kingdom on May 31, 2023

Mamajo: Bought as a gift for my son. He loves it. The ancient maps are amazing in this book...

United States on May 18, 2023

Stacy M: Dust jacket came slightly torn but otherwise, he loves it.

United States on Mar 11, 2023

Eva Pete: I truly love this history that I find to be more true than just ancient history… the 1 thing that I’m really bummed about, most maps, can’t even read what’s written there- the back stories of each are great, but I wanted MAPS I could read. Even if I zoom in, the photos themselves are not clear letters, it’s not readable. Some things, like the word France, but the smaller cities, forget about it.
I’m glad to have this, a lot of ‘folklore’—- if you love that, you’ll love this. If you’re looking for a John Speede newe mape of Tartary, to read about the land where Christians ruled, it’s not in here. Now I want to hunt down each map in here, so I can see them clearly. Very cool book, fun for adults & children to read thru.

United States on Feb 10, 2023

Christopher Hood: I love looking at maps. One of my go-to presents that I would get myself when travelling used to be maps. There is so much you see and understand about places by just looking at maps. To date I haven’t really brought maps much into my academic work – other than needing them for discussing certain points in relation to my research on the JL123 crash in my book Dealing with Disaster in Japan and, to a lesser degree, my research about the shinkansen in Shinkansen. I did manage to discuss maps within my book Japan: The Basics and also issues with how Roland Barthes interprets an historical map of Tokyo within his book Empire of Signs, but that, again, was quite specific. I hope to have a broader discussion about maps in relation to Japan in some future work.

Although I have a general interest in maps, I was hoping that this book would also help provide some material that would help with any future study (and teaching) I do about maps in relation to Japan. In that respect, I was a bit disappointed. Although (late on in the book), there is mention about the themes raised in the book also applying to East Asia, the focus of the book largely ignored that part of the world....

United Kingdom on Jan 18, 2021