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Explorer's Maps : Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery

by: Skelton, R.A.

Price: 66,32 EURO

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Category: Ancient Topography / Geography / History
Code: 30058
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1958
Publication Place: London
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 337
Book Condition: Good
Comments: A reprint, with revisions, of a series of 14 articles published in the Geographical magazine (London) between July 1953 and Aug. 1956 / Second impression 1960

Explorers' maps : chapters in the cartographic record of geographical discovery

Author: R. A. Skelton

xi, 337 pages : illustrations (1 color), charts, maps, plans ; 29 cm


Contents:
Marco Polo and the mapmakers
The Portuguese sea-way to the Indies
Cathay or a new world?
The new world in the sixteenth century
The north-east passage
The north-west passage
European rivalry for the Spice Islands
The Far East in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The Spanish in the South Sea
The Dutch quest of the South-Land
James Cook and the mapping of the Pacific
North America from sea to sea
The rivers of Africa
The polar regions in the nineteenth century

 

Subjects:
Cartografie
Cartographie Histoire
Cartography
Cartography History
Découvertes géographiques
Discoveries in geography
History
Kaarten (geografie)
Ontdekkingsreizen


A reprint, with revisions, of a series of 14 articles published in the Geographical magazine (London) between July 1953 and Aug. 1956

 
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Explorer's Maps : Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery

by: Skelton, R.A.

  • Routledge, London, 1958

Price: 66,32 EURO

1 copy in stock