----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 FROM: DYALLEN TO: Remote Addressee ( [log in to unmask] ) 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.