Impossible Journeys

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Impossible Journeys
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Travel

Impossible Journeys

Mathew Lyons
Edition year 2009
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Neil Gower
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 248
Dimensions 22.5 × 17.3 cm

Edition details

Impossible Journeys by Mathew Lyons. 26 black & white illustrations. Quarter-bound in black cloth with paper sides wrap=around printed with a full colour illustration by Neil Gower. Gilt spine title. Black slipcase. Blue endpapers. 248pp. 22.5x17.3cm

About the book

Mathew Lyons's Impossible Journeys explores voyages to places that never existed, destinations that have vanished and expeditions whose ambitions seemed scarcely achievable. Imagined geography and documented adventure meet in stories of misplaced confidence, extraordinary determination and the uncertain knowledge of earlier maps. Lyons is interested in what travellers believed they might find as well as what they actually encountered. His collection restores some of the strangeness of a world in which legends, rumours and unexplored spaces could still send people across oceans in pursuit of the impossible.

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