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100	1		_aFirestone, Clark B. _q(Clark Barnaby), _d1869-1957
245	1	4	_aThe coasts of illusion
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-03-31
505	0		_aMarco 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			_aAlan, 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			_a"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			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1924
653			_aLegends
653			_aGeographical myths
700	1		_aHambidge, Ruth
700	1		_aMillais, John Everett, _d1829-1896
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/coastsofillusion0000clar
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75759
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