Hy Brasil: the metamorphosis of an island [electronic resource] : from cartographic error to Celtic Elysium / Barbara Freitag.

"Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in sea...

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