Lost Islands – The story of islands that have vanished from nautical charts –

“… Arranged essentially by location, the tales combine historical and geographic interests with fascinating anecdotal material. Stommel describes how these little pin-pricks of land got on to charts, who ‘discovered’ them, who expunged them, and why some were so long-lived. It is a chronicle of poor navigation, misprints, falsification, optical illusion, wild whalers’ tales, wistful hopes, and of a few real islands which rose and fell beneath the waves. …”