The coasts of illusion (Registro nro. 116484)
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| LC control number | 24028913 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | G |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Firestone, Clark B. |
| Fuller form of name | (Clark Barnaby), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1869-1957 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The coasts of illusion |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-03-31 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Marco talks with his neighbors -- Preface -- The world that was -- The earth itself -- Inanimate nature -- The animal kingdom -- The fabulous beasts -- Fable upon wings -- The dragon -- Denizens of the deep -- The peoples of prodigy -- The satyrs -- The pygmies -- The Amazons of legend -- The Amazons of history -- The folk of tradition -- The horizon lands -- Lands of legend -- Islands of enchantment -- The terrible ocean -- The Sargasso Sea -- Atlantis -- The gilded man -- The dream quests of Spain -- The fabric of illusion -- The travel tales of mankind -- The gains of fable. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Alan, Hannah Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales" by Clark B. Firestone is a historical and literary analysis written in the early 20th century. The book explores the myths, legends, and half-truths woven into travel literature through the ages, focusing on how these narratives shaped humanity’s perception of the earth and its inhabitants. Rather than examining the supernatural, the work delves into the imaginative and sometimes fanciful ways in which people explained unknown lands, creatures, and phenomena before the age of modern geography and science. The opening of this study sets the tone by invoking the legendary adventures of Marco Polo, whose tales blend fact with hearsay and wonder, and uses his imagined dialogue with Venetians to illustrate how travel stories both fascinated and amused people. The preface clarifies that Firestone aims to survey the world as filtered through myths, exploring how geography, peoples, animals, and even natural phenomena like rivers or stones were distorted or imagined anew. Early chapters describe how maps once depicted both real and fantastical lands, and recount a host of beliefs about the world’s shape, the mystical properties of plants and stones, and the marvels attached to animals. The text emphasizes the power of human imagination—driven by hope, fear, or wishful thinking—in constructing a world of marvels that persisted until relatively modern times. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Legends |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Geographical myths |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hambidge, Ruth |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Millais, John Everett, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1829-1896 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/coastsofillusion0000clar">https://archive.org/details/coastsofillusion0000clar</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75759">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75759</a> |
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