| Description |
xi, 337 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's note -- Part one : The way of the east -- I Marco Polo and the mapmakers -- II The Portuguese sea-way to the Indies -- Part two : The way of the west -- III Cathay or a new world? -- IV The new world in the sixteenths century -- Part three : The way of the north -- V The north-east passage -- VI The north-west passage -- Part four : The spice islands and Cathay -- VII European rivalry for the spice islands -- VIII The far east in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries -- Part five : The south sea -- IX The Spanish in the south sea -- X The Dutch quest of the south-land -- XI James Cook and the mapping of the Pacific -- Part six : The continents and the poles -- XII North America from sea to sea -- XIII The rivers of Africa -- XIV The polar regions in the nineteenth century -- Afterword -- Bibliographical note -- Index |
| Summary |
This book has more than two hundred half-tone illustrations, most of them from old maps, and a colourde frontsipiece. Its fascinating theme is the mutial infulence of maps upon explorers' voyages, and of the voyages upon later maps. It is in fact a pictorial guide to general histories of exploration. But it is far more than a picture book - there are 319 crown quarto pages of text and illustration combined. The maps used or drawn by explorers describe the borderland between the known and the unknown. Their evidence may tell us what a traveller expected to find or what he in fact discovered. The recording of a journey in one of the oldest uses which maps have served, but systematic survey and map or chart work in connection with voyages of discovery are scarcely found before the fifteenth century. This is strictly the starting-point of the book, which continues until the close of the nineteenth century. (Inside cover) |
| Notes |
"First published 1958" |
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A reprint, with revisions, of a series of 14 articles published in the Geographical magazine (London) between July 1953 and Aug. 1956 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cartography -- History.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Early maps.
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| LC no. |
58008182 |
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