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               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 11794-3331
 
                                            David Y Allen
                                            Library-Reference
                                            516 632-7110
                                            10-May-1993 08:51am EDT
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Subject: Piri re'is map
 
        I read Charles Hapgood's book, and found it to be imaginative, to say
the least.  There is a more sober and orthodox discussion in the chapter by
Svat Soucek on Islamic Charting of the Mediterranean in Vol. II of the Harley
and Woodwoord History of Cartography.