The Book Of Legendary Lands
"A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages"--Provided by publisher.
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What Hacker News says
- I think you mean The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco. Encyclopedia of Imaginary places is a different book by Theresa Bane.
- Eco's book is called "The Book of Legendary Lands": Legendary places don't have to be fully imaginary or fictional as at least half of the examples are more or less generalized versions of real world locations. The T-O Map, Tabula Peutingeriana, Iceland are all depictions of the world.
There is however this other genre of curiosity maps:
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/...
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/...
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