New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration

by Peter Whitfield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415920264
• ISBN13: 9780415920261
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.1" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary