New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration - Couverture rigide

Whitfield, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712345574 ISBN 13 : 9780712345576

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 1998

Synopsis

This work provides an intellectual context of exploration. The author asks, how did explorers and their patrons understand the expanding world and their place in it? What were they really seeking, and how did they believe they could achieve it? How did they balance the known and the unknown in their minds? Historical maps are important in answering these questions, and this book displays the geographical ideas of the explorers themselves, through the maps they used or the new maps which they caused to be made. The power that came with increasing technological and geographical knowledge is made plain by the European empires that grew out of conquest, annexation and exploitation. There are maps, which although they seem innacurate and imaginative, serve as reminders of the gaps in people's knowledge. Up until very recent times, as maps show, there have been areas of the world remaining to be explored and "new found lands" to discover.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712345574
• ISBN 13: 9780712345576
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible