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Cover artist
  
Charles Skaggs

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1952

Publisher
  
Rinehart & Company

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1952

Pages
  
329 pp

Genre
  
History

Subject
  
History

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Authors
  
L. Sprague de Camp, Willy Ley

Awards
  
International Fantasy Award for Non-fiction

Similar
  
L Sprague de Camp books, History books

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Lands Beyond is a study of geographical myths by L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley, first published in hardcover by Rinehart in 1952, and reissued by Barnes & Noble in 1993. It has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. It was the winner of the 1953 International Fantasy Award for nonfiction.

Contents

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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

    New York Times columnist Charles Poore placed Lands Beyond on his annual list of books recommended for Christmas giving. Kirkus Reviews 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 described it as "fascinating". Weird Tales commended Lands Beyond to its audience, saying de Camp and Ley "ably treated" their subjects "for reader enjoyment". George O. Smith 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".

    References

    Lands Beyond Wikipedia