''Lands Beyond'' is a study of geographical myths by
L. Sprague de Camp and
Willy Ley
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, first published in
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in 1952,
and reissued by
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in 1993.
It has been translated into
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It was the winner of the 1953
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for nonfiction.
Contents
*Introduction
*Chapter I. The Land of Longing
*Chapter II. The Long Homecoming
*Chapter III. The Fabulous Feast
*Chapter IV. The Sea of Sindbad
*Chapter V. The Land of Prester John
*Chapter VI. The Mislaid Tribes
*Chapter VII. The Great Dream
*Chapter VIII. The Western Ocean
*Chapter IX. Golden Men and Amazons
*Chapter X. The Shape of the Earth
*Epilogue
*Bibliography
*Index
Reception
''
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'' columnist
Charles Poore placed ''Lands Beyond'' on his annual list of books recommended for Christmas giving.
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recommended it as "a zestful geographical round-up which combines fact, legend and literature in equally interested parts".
Boucher and
McComas praised the book, saying it was "written with scholarly authority, literary grace, and an amusedly tolerant exposition of error, to make one of the season's most enjoyable items." ''
New Worlds'' reviewer
Leslie Flood
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described it as "fascinating". ''
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'' commended ''Lands Beyond'' to its audience, saying de Camp and Ley "ably treated" their subjects "for reader enjoyment".
George O. Smith
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wrote that it was "a book good for the younger and more impressionable to read, because it reduces to the realm of practicality many of the fabulous mysteries of the past, thus stripping the glamorous Long-Ago of its false superiority".
["Science: Fact and Fiction", '' Space Science Fiction'', November 1952, p.104]
References
External links
book review by Mark Olson
1952 non-fiction books
Science books
20th-century history books
History books about geography
Books by L. Sprague de Camp
Mythological places
Rinehart & Company books
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