[PDF.44vk] New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration

New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration

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 | #13239874 in Books |  1998-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 128 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| MAPS OF EXPLORATION|By Robert Williams|This is a rather beautiful coffee table book containing many very interesting and informative maps. There are many maps I have not seen before. One of the more interesting maps is the 1744 Great Lakes map by the Jesuit explorer, Jacques Bellin. It is especially interesting to me, being from this area, by the fact there are no cities

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 th...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration   |  Peter Whitfield. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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