Further Reading

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General William H. Babcock, Legendary Islands of the Atlantic,

American Geographical Society, 1922.

Donald S. Johnson, The Phantom Islands of the Atlantic, Souvenir Press, 1997.

Raymond H. Ramsay, No Longer on the Map, Ballantine Books, 1973.

Henry Stommel, Lost Islands, University of British Columbia Press, 1984.

Individual Islands Hundreds of books have been written about Atlantis, and dozens more about Lemuria. The vast majority of these can probably be read as fiction.

Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum (Penguin, 2006) is an excellent introduction to Thule, both as a place and as an idea. Barry Cunliffe’s The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek (Walker & Company, 2002) provides a more scholarly approach to the subject.

Andrea di Robilant’s Venetian Navigators (Faber & Faber, 2011) offers a very readable account of Frisland and the other Zeno islands, though the author seems rather too eager to believe the tale.

Barbara Freitag’s Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island (Rodopi, 2013) peels away the many falsehoods and misconceptions that surround this island.