Geographical myths
Here are entered works on legendary or mythical places. Works on imaginary places created for literary or artistic purposes are entered under Imaginary places.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Geographical myths -- Fiction
- Atlantis (Legendary place)
- Avalon (Legendary place)
- Camelot (Legendary place)
- Cibola, Seven Cities of
- Civilization, Subterranean
- Cockaigne
- El Dorado
- Lemuria
- Lost continents
- Mu (Legendary place)
- Norumbega (Legendary place)
- Quivira (Legendary place)
- Shambhala
- Legendary places
- Mythical places
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Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study in Medieval Geography (research series #8; New York: American Geographical Society, 1922), by William Henry Babcock- Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1898), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, illust. by Albert Herter (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
- The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Padraic Colum, illust. by Wilfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beyond the Verge: Home of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1896), by De Witt C. Chipman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Moon Pool, by Abraham Merritt
- The Treasure of the Ice: A Romance (London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1898), by Eugene S. Bisbee (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Treasure of Atlantis (originally published 1916; this edition published 1970), by J. Allan Dunn (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Selestor's Men of Atlantis (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, c1937), by Clara Iza Von Ravn (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Three Go Back (c1932), by James Leslie Mitchell (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Maracot Deep (c1929), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Epub in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Atlantida (L'Atlantide) (New York: Duffield and Company, 1920), by Pierre Benoît, trans. by Mary C. Tongue and Mary Ross (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Atlantis (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1912), by Gerhart Hauptmann, trans. by Adele Szold Seltzer and Thomas Seltzer
- The Lost Continent, by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (Gutenberg text)
- The Lost Continent (New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1900), by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Poseidon's Paradise: The Romance of Atlantis (San Francisco: Clemens Pub. Co., 1892), by Elizabeth G. Birkmaier
- Claimed (originally published 1920), by Francis Stevens (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
- This Scepter'd Isle (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis
- I Remember Lemuria, and The Return of Sathanas (Evanston, IL: Venture Books, 1948), by Richard S. Shaver, contrib. by Ray Palmer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)
- The Coming Race (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1871), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The Queen of Appalachia (New York et al.: Abbey Press, c1901), by Joe. H. Borders
- Atlantis and the Atlanteans (The Emerald Tablets and Other Texts) (2008), ed. by Vladimir Antonov, trans. by Mikhail Nikolenko (PDF at swami-center.org)
- Atlantis, die Urheimat der Arier (in German; Berlin: Arier, 1922), by Karl Georg Zschaetzsch
- Atlantis in America (London: E. Benn Ltd., 1925), by Lewis Spence
- Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882), by Ignatius Donnelly
- Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, by Ignatius Donnelly (Gutenberg text)
- Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (11th edition; New York: Harper and Bros., c1882), by Ignatius Donnelly
- Cosmic Memory: Prehistory of Earth and Man, by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by Karl E. Zimmer (HTML at elib.com)
- The Problem of Atlantis (revised edition; London: W. Rider and Son, 1925), by Lewis Spence (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), by Ignatius Donnelly
- Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of Atlantis: A Geographical, Historical and Ethnological Sketch (1896), by W. Scott-Elliot (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria: Their History and Civilization; Being Chapters From the Akashic Records (Chicago: The Rajput Press, 1911), by Rudolf Steiner, ed. by Max Gysi (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Oera Linda Book, From a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century (English language portions only; London: Trubner and Co., 1876), ed. by William R. Sandbach and J. G. Ottema, contrib. by Cornelis Over de Linden (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1892), by Daniel Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Shepherd of Men: An Official Commentary on the Sermon of Hermes Trismegistos (San Francisco: Hermetic Pub. Co.; Chicago: Sterling, 1916), by A. S. Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Seven Cities of Cibola (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926), by Aileen Baehrens Nusbaum, illust. by Margaret Finnan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Das Schlaraffenland in German Literature and Folksong: Social Aspects of an Earthly Paradise, With an Inquiry into its History in European Literature (University of Chicago dissertation, 1944), by Elfriede Marie Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918), by Clifford Smyth, contrib. by Richard Le Gallienne, illust. by R. G. Russom (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Los Caballeros del Dorado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Clasical Espanola, 1915), by Ciro Bayo (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana: With a Relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (Which the Spanyards call El Dorado) and the Provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and Other Countries, With Their Rivers, Adjoyning (London: R. Robinson, 1596), by Walter Raleigh
- The Discovery of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh (Gutenberg text)
- The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh (HTML at Fordham)
- Los Marañones (Leyenda Áurea del Nuevo Mundo) (in Spanish; Madrid: Impr. de E. Bailly-Baillière, 1913), by Ciro Bayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Lost Lemuria (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1904), by W. Scott-Elliot (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria: Their History and Civilization; Being Chapters From the Akashic Records (Chicago: The Rajput Press, 1911), by Rudolf Steiner, ed. by Max Gysi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cosmic Memory: Prehistory of Earth and Man, by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by Karl E. Zimmer (HTML at elib.com)
- The Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man (New York: W.E. Rudge, 1926), by James Churchward (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Norse Discovery of America (London et al.: Norroena Society, 1906), by Arthur Middleton Reeves, North Ludlow Beamish, and Rasmus B. Anderson
- The Land of Poco Tiempo (with a new foreword by Walter; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1952), by Charles Fletcher Lummis, contrib. by Paul A. F. Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Land of Poco Tiempo (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Charles Fletcher Lummis (multiple formats at archive.org)
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