The title of this book refers to a very specific type of island; not one that is yet to be discovered, but one was believed to be real at some point but is no longer on the map. These are the products of imagination, deception and simple human error. They are phantoms and fakes: an archipelago of ex...
bookshelves: summer-2015, nonfiction, published-2015 Read from July 10 to 17, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b061q92dDescription: Marking a borderland between 'near' and 'far north', the sixtieth parallel wraps itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden and Norway; it crosses ...