New Found Lands Maps in the Hi

Whitfield, Peter

ISBN 10: 0415920264 / ISBN 13: 9780415920261

Verlag: Routledge, 1998

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: New Found Lands Maps in the Hi
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0415920264
• ISBN-13: 9780415920261
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Acceptable

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Inhaltsangabe

First Published in 1998. An exploration narrative can be a tale of adventure and endurance, a technical account of navigation and seamanship, or a political history of the overseas empires that were built up in the wake of the explorers.

In New Found Lands, Peter Whitfield takes a different approach. By focusing on the maps that the explorers themselves used, Whitfield reveals how the both the explorers and their patrons understood their expanding world and their place in it, what they were seeking and how they thought they could achieve it, and how they integrated new knowledge into their evolving world view.

The maps in New Found Lands present the geographical ideas of the time, making plain the power that came with increasing technical and geographical knowledge. They also serve as evocative and poignant reminders of the limited knowledge of these explorers. For up until very recent times, as these maps show, there have been areas of the world remaining to be explored and "new found lands" to discover.

This lavishly illustrated book progresses chronologically, starting with the explorers of the ancient world, covering the East, the New World, the Pacific, Australia and the Modern Era. It will enrich our understanding of the voyages of discovery undertaken over the past 2000 years and will delight any map or history lover. Also inlcludes 150 color and black and white maps.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Whitfield runs his own company publishing facsimiles of historical maps. In 1995 he was curator of the British Library exhibit, "The Earth and the Heavens: The Map Maker's Art." He currently lives in London.