Research Catalog
The book of legendary lands / Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
- Title
- The book of legendary lands / Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
Text | Request in advance | PN56.G478 E26 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McEwen, Alastair
- Description
- 477 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "A fascinating illustrated tour of the fabled places in literature and folklore that have awed, troubled, and eluded us through the ages"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- Alamüt, 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-Château -- Fictional places and their truth.
- ISBN
- 9780847841219
- 0847841219
- LCCN
- ^^2013936600
- OCLC
- 832278728
- SCSB-12634123
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library