[PDF.74gq] The Charting of the Oceans: Ten Centuries of Maritime Maps

The Charting of the Oceans: Ten Centuries of Maritime Maps

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 | #2104537 in Books |  Pomegranate Communications |  1996-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.02 x10.93 x11.91l, | File type: PDF | 144 pages

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||22 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| A Great Overview|By A Customer|By all accounts, this book should have received 5 stars. It's well written, richly illustrated and covers, albeit superficially, the history and problems the earliest mariners faced as they ventured beyond the sight of land into the trackless sea. Although the book lacks a certain depth (it's only 144 pages), Whitfiled uses an economy of prose| |Peter Whitfield's The Charting Of The Oceans: Ten Centuries Of Maritime Maps traces the history of maritime and nautical charts, not as technical documents but as eloquent witnesses to the discovery of the world beyond Europe, and to man's evolving knowledge o

This book from the Peter Whitfield cartographic series traces the history of humankind’s relation to the sea as revealed in ten centuries of maritime maps. Presenting sixty maps reproduced in color over double-page spreads, and commentary describing their special features and their significance in the history of navigation, the book explores ancient navigation; the Middle Ages and the Age of Discovery; the printed sea chart, 1600-1800; and the modern sea chart.

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