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3 - Geographical Myths

from Part I - Mapping Shakespeare’s World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Further reading

Wey-Gómez, Nicolas. Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. Cambridge: MIT P, 2008.Google Scholar
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