Published 1994
Table of Contents:
“…Introduction: Geography as a Literary Tradition -- The Boundaries of Earth -- Boundaries and the Boundless -- Ocean and Cosmic Disorder -- Roads around the World -- Herodotus and the Changing World Picture -- Aristotle and After -- Ethiopian and Hyperborean -- The Blameless Ethiopians -- The Fortunate Hyperboreans -- Arimaspians and Scythians -- The Kunokephaloi -- Wonders of the East -- Before Alexander -- Marvel-Collectors and Critics -- The Late Romance Tradition -- Ultima Thule and Beyond -- Antipodal Ambitions -- The
North Sea Coast -- The Headwaters of the Nile -- The Atlantic Horizon -- Geography and Fiction -- Ocean and Poetry -- The Voyage of Odysseus -- Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others -- The Fictions of Exploration -- Epilogue: After Columbus.…”
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