Hy Brasil -- the metamorphosis of an island : from cartographic error to Celtic Elysium / Barbara Freitag.
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in sear...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Series: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
69. |
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| Summary: | Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : 5 color illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-328) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9401209103 9789401209106 |
| ISSN: | 0927-5754 ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |