Book/pamphlet
Book Cover
Name Whitfield, Peter, Dr
Title New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield
Dates/Publication Details New York : Routledge, c1998
LOCATION NUMBER STATUS
 RGS Collection  910.9 W595 b  ASK AT RGS
Description/Quantity viii, 200 pages : ill. (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 30 cm
Notes Includes 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
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)