The "Isles Fortunées", the Blessed Isles, of the Atlantic, now understood to be the Canary Islands, were thought in classical antiquity to have been the abode of mythological heroes and beasts, the site of some of Hercules's adventures, as well as the possible location of Atlantis.
Our senior specialist in literature, Sammy, shares this survey of the Atlantic Islands by French naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778-1846), including the famous folding map depicting the location of Atlantis, complete with such putative sites as the Hesperides and Land of the Amazons.
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