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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

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Bowling Green Main Lib-1st Floor   G81.W47 1998 AVAILABLE
Denison University DEN Main   G81 .W47 1998 AVAILABLE
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Miami U King Library (2nd floor)   G81 .W47 1998 AVAILABLE
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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
Description viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents 1. Exploration in the Ancient World -- 2. The Lure of the East, 1250-1550 -- 3. The New World, 1490-1630 -- 4. The Pacific and Australia, 1520-1800 -- 5. The Continents Explored, 1500-1900 -- Exploration in the Modern World
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? 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
Subjects Discoveries in geography
Cartography -- History
Genre/Form History. fast
LC NO G81 .W47 1998
Dewey No 910/.9 21
OCLC # 38144335
ISBN 0415920264 (alk. paper)
9780415920261 (alk. paper)

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