# The coasts of illusion Author: Firestone, Clark B. (Clark Barnaby), 1869-1957; Hambidge, Ruth [Illustrator]; Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896 [Illustrator] Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75759 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+coasts+of+illusion+Firestone&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The geography, anthropology, and natural history of this volume present a world a little different from that which is outlined in modern text-books and yet one that is familiar. It is the traditional world of wonder, which until yesterday was believed to be the real world. A map of it would show the same continents, and some of the same races of men and species of animals that are delineated in any atlas of to-day; but there would be changes. Asia would bear far away into the unknown spaces of the East. A shadowy continent would stretch across the open waters of the Indian Ocean. The clouds and darkness of supernatural terrors, or dimly remembered fates, would shroud the Atlantic, the Gre... ## Chapters - [Chapter XXV. The Gains of Fable](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter XVI. Lands of Legend](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter XXIV. The Travel Tales of Mankind](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter XXII. The Dream Quests of Spain](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter XV. The Horizon Lands](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter IV. The Animal Kingdom](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter XIII. The Amazons of History](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter XI. The Pygmies](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter V. The Fabulous Beasts](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter XII. The Amazons of Legend](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter IX. The Peoples of Prodigy](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter XX. Atlantis](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter XXI. The Gilded Man](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter VIII. Denizens of the Deep](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter XXIII. The Fabric of Illusion](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter III. Inanimate Nature](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter XVII. Islands of Enchantment](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter XVIII. The Terrible Ocean](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter VI. Fable upon Wings](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter X. The Satyrs](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter XIV. The Folk of Tradition](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter VII. The Dragon](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter II. The Earth Itself](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter XIX. The Sargasso Sea](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter I. The World That Was](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-coasts-of-illusion-75759/chapters/1/index.md)