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Author Whitfield, Peter, 1947-
Title New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield
Imprint New York : Routledge, [1998]
©1998


LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 1st floor Oversize  G81 .W47 1998    NOT CHCKD OUT


Description viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Summary "In this book Peter Whitfield concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did explorers and their patrons understand their 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?"--BOOK JACKET. "Historical maps are vitally important in answering these questions, and this book displays the geographical ideas of the explorers themselves, through the maps that they used or the new maps which they caused to be made."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Local Note cg
Standard # 0415920264 (alk. paper)
(OCoLC)38144335
Table of Contents
 Preface 
1Exploration in the Ancient World1
2The Lure of the East, 1250-155022
3The New World, 1490-163053
4The Pacific and Australia, 1520-180090
5The Continents Explored, 1500-1900127
 Postscript 
 Exploration in the Modern World185
 Bibliographical Note197
 Index198
Author Whitfield, Peter, 1947-
Subject Discoveries in geography
Cartography -- History
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 1st floor Oversize  G81 .W47 1998    NOT CHCKD OUT
  
Description viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Summary "In this book Peter Whitfield concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did explorers and their patrons understand their 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?"--BOOK JACKET. "Historical maps are vitally important in answering these questions, and this book displays the geographical ideas of the explorers themselves, through the maps that they used or the new maps which they caused to be made."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Local Note cg
Standard # 0415920264 (alk. paper)
(OCoLC)38144335
OCLC # 38144335
LC Card # 97047767
Subject Discoveries in geography
Cartography -- History
Table of Contents
 Preface 
1Exploration in the Ancient World1
2The Lure of the East, 1250-155022
3The New World, 1490-163053
4The Pacific and Australia, 1520-180090
5The Continents Explored, 1500-1900127
 Postscript 
 Exploration in the Modern World185
 Bibliographical Note197
 Index198