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Author Whitfield, Peter, Dr.
Title New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield.
Publisher New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Descript viii, 200 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197) and index.
Contents Exploration in the ancient world -- The lure of the East, 1250-1550 -- The New World, 1490-1630 -- The Pacific and Australia, 1520-1800 -- 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.
Subject Discoveries in geography.
Cartography -- History.
ISBN 0415920264 (alk. paper)








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