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lang: eng lang: ita lang: 461, 16 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) Summary: The flat earth and the antipodes -- Biblical lands -- The lands of Homer and the seven wonders -- The wonders of the East, from Alexander to Prester John -- The Earthly Paradise, the Isles of the Blessed, and El Dorado -- Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria -- Ultima Thule and Hyperborea - - The migrations of the grail -- Alamut, the Old Man of the Mountain, and the Assassins -- The Land of Cockaigne -- The Islands of Utopia -- The Island of Solomon and the Austral Land -- The interior of the Earth, the Polar myth, and Agartha -- The invention of Rennes-le-Chateau -- Fictional places and their truthCustom 2
Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen