| Acknowledgments | |
| Works Frequently Cited | |
| Introduction: Geography as a Literary Tradition | 3 |
| 1 | The Boundaries of Earth | 9 |
| Boundaries and the Boundless | 11 |
| Ocean and Cosmic Disorder | 20 |
| Roads around the World | 26 |
| Herodotus and the Changing World Picture | 32 |
| Aristotle and After | 41 |
| 2 | Ethiopian and Hyperborean | 45 |
| The Blameless Ethiopians | 49 |
| The Fortunate Hyperboreans | 60 |
| Arimaspians and Scythians | 67 |
| The Kunokephaloi | 77 |
| 3 | Wonders of the East | 82 |
| Before Alexander | 83 |
| Marvel-Collectors and Critics | 94 |
| The Late Romance Tradition | 109 |
| 4 | Ultima Thule and Beyond | 121 |
| Antipodal Ambition | 124 |
| The North Sea Coast | 140 |
| The Headwaters of the Nile | 149 |
| The Atlantic Horizon | 156 |
| 5 | Geography and Fiction | 172 |
| Ocean and Poetry | 176 |
| The Voyage of Odysseus | 183 |
| Pytheas, Euhemerus, and Others | 196 |
| The Fiction Election | 202 |
| Epilogue: After Columbus | 215 |
| Index | 223 |
