Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Willem van de Velde the Elder. The islands that appeared on medieval charts and were sailed for in earnest - Antillia, Saint Brendan's Isle, Brasil, the Isle of Seven Cities - and what may have been behind each. Babcock treats them as a geographer, not a romancer. This edition adds a gallery of 58 plates after Turner, Aivazovsky and Church, and 26 restored and coloured in-text illustrations.

William Henry Babcock (1849-1922) was an American lawyer, poet and historical geographer born in Philadelphia. He wrote on early Atlantic voyages and pre-Columbian contact for the American Geographical Society. His works include Legendary Islands of the Atlantic and Early Norse Visits to North America.