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Author Whitfield, Peter, 1947-
Title New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield.
Publisher London : British Library, 1998.
Description viii, 200 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Location Call Number Currently
 Weldon Library 3rd Floor Oversize - Regular Loan  G81.W47 1998    IN LIBRARY
PRINTED MATL
Table of Contents
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
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 197) and index.
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 0712345574
0415920264
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