 Dust-jacket forLands Beyond | |
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp andWilly Ley |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Charles Skaggs |
| Language | English |
| Subject | History |
| Publisher | Rinehart & Company |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 329 pp |
Lands Beyond is a study of geographical myths byL. Sprague de Camp andWilly Ley, first published inhardcover byRinehart in 1952,[1][2] and reissued byBarnes & Noble in 1993.[2] It has been translated intoFrench,Spanish,Portuguese, andItalian.[1] It was the winner of the 1953International Fantasy Award for nonfiction.[1][2]
New York Times columnist Charles Poore placedLands Beyond on his annual list of books recommended for Christmas giving.[3]Kirkus Reviews recommended it as "a zestful geographical round-up which combines fact, legend and literature in equally interested parts".[4]
Boucher andMcComas praised the book, saying it was "written with scholarly authority, literary grace, and an amusedly tolerant exposition of error, to make one of the season's most enjoyable items."[5]New Worlds reviewer Leslie Flood described it as “fascinating”.[6]Weird Tales commendedLands Beyond to its audience, saying de Camp and Ley "ably treated" their subjects "for reader enjoyment".[7]George O. Smith wrote that it was "a book good for the younger and more impressionable to read, because it reduces to the realm of practicality many of the fabulous mysteries of the past, thus stripping the glamorous Long-Ago of its false superiority".[8]
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