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...
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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 search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines ...
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...
more
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 search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; List of Images; Preface; PART I: THE CARTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF BRASIL ISLAND; Chapter 1 Mediterranean Mapping and Naming; PART II: ANGLICIZATION; Chapter 2 The Bristol Voyages and King Arthuron Brasil Island; PART III: BRASIL ISLAND IN IRISH FOLKLORE; Chapter 3 Oral Lore; PART IV: BRASIL ISLAND IN LITERATURE AND LEGEND: THE OLDER TRADITION; Chapter 4 Gaelic Otherworlds; Chapter 5 Clerical Sea Voyages and St Brendan'sVisit to Brasil Island; Chapter 6 Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-CenturyEnglish Travellers' Tales
Chapter 7 An Aborted Irish Attempt to Writeabout the IslandChapter 8 The Vision of Ulster: Brasil Islandand National Identity; PART V: GAELICIZATION; Chapter 9 "Hy Brasil: Paradise of the Pagan Irish"in Modern Literature and the Arts; Chapter 10 From High Art to Popular Culture:Hy Brasil's Broad Appeal; Conclusion; Appendix: Cartographic Appearances of Brasil Island; Bibliography; Index
