Buy this book on-line Whitfield, Peter : New Found Lands: Maps in the History of ExplorationRoutledge, New York, 1998 ISBN 9780415920261
Fine copy in fine dust jacket, 4to, 200 pp. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Whitfield, Peter : New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Whitfield, Peter : New Found Lands: Maps in the History of ExplorationRoutledge, New York, 1998 ISBN 0415920264
200pp. Color illustrations. The author concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did explorers and their patrons understand theeir expanding world and their places 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? The book displays the geolgraphical ideas of the explorers through the maps that they used or the new maps which they caused to be made, 4to, Fine in Fine DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Whitfield, Peter : New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, livres illustrées, atlases, livres anciens and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |