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Lost Island of Hi-Brazil
Type: Geographical Legend. Summary: For centuries European map-makers believed that an island called Hi-Brazil was located in the Atlantic, even though no such island had ever been found. Detail from the Catalan map of 1350 showing the location of Hi-Brazil. (Image from Donald Johnson’s Phantom Islands of the Atlantic) In…
Medieval Travel Lies
As the western Roman empire declined during the fourth and fifth centuries AD, Europe lost contact with the rest of the world. Classical knowledge of the outside world receded, and what emerged in its place was a peculiar mixture of fact and fiction. European scholars inhabited the lands to their…
Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Illustration from the earliest printed edition of Mandeville’s Travels showing some of the various races and species that Mandeville claimed to have encountered, including (clockwise from top left): the wild men with horns and hoofs; the people with eyes in their shoulders; the folk that have but one foot; and…
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Lost Island of Hi-Brazil
Type: Geographical Legend. Summary: For centuries European map-makers believed that an island called Hi-Brazil was located in the Atlantic, even though no such island had ever been found. Detail from the Catalan map of 1350 showing the location of Hi-Brazil. (Image from Donald Johnson’s Phantom Islands of the Atlantic) In…
Medieval Travel Lies
As the western Roman empire declined during the fourth and fifth centuries AD, Europe lost contact with the rest of the world. Classical knowledge of the outside world receded, and what emerged in its place was a peculiar mixture of fact and fiction. European scholars inhabited the lands to their…
Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Illustration from the earliest printed edition of Mandeville’s Travels showing some of the various races and species that Mandeville claimed to have encountered, including (clockwise from top left): the wild men with horns and hoofs; the people with eyes in their shoulders; the folk that have but one foot; and…
