New York Times columnist Charles Poore placed Lands 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 and McComas 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 commended Lands 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]
References
^ abcLaughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 71–72.