Map of Thomas More’s Utopia

Maps depicting imagined geography are often included with descriptions of utopias. This map was included in a 1518 edition of Thomas More’s Utopia. Raphael Hythloday, the fictional explorer More credited with discovering this imagined perfect society, appears at the lower left of this image.
Woodcut, Ambrosius Holbein, 1518. Courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library and Wikimedia Commons

Image featured in Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes by Cynthia Resor

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