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    • Author/Creator:Whitfield, Peter, 1947-
    • Title:New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield.
    • ISBN:0415920264
      9780415920261
    • Published/Created:New York : Routledge, ©1998.
    • Physical Description:viii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
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    • 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.
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes 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.
    • Subjects:Discoveries in geography.
      Cartography--History.
      Cartography.
      Discoveries in geography.
      Ontdekkingsreizen.
      Kaarten (geografie)
      Cartographie--Histoire.
      Découvertes géographiques.
      Entdeckungsreise.
      Kartographie.
    • Genre/Form:History.