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New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration
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New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration Hardback - 1998

by Peter Whitfield

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Visually demonstrating the thoughts and knowledge of the explorers, "New Found Lands" focuses on the maps that early travelers themselves used. The maps serve as evocative and poignant reminders of the limited knowledge of these explorers and how these men and their patrons understood their expanding place in the world. 150 maps, 100 in color.

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First Published in 1998. An exploration narrative can be a tale of adventure and endurance, a technical account of navigation and seamanship, or a political history of the overseas empires that were built up in the wake of the explorers.

In New Found Lands, Peter Whitfield takes a different approach. By focusing on the maps that the explorers themselves used, Whitfield reveals how the both the explorers and their patrons understood their expanding world and their place in it, what they were seeking and how they thought they could achieve it, and how they integrated new knowledge into their evolving world view.

The maps in New Found Lands present the geographical ideas of the time, making plain the power that came with increasing technical and geographical knowledge. They also serve as evocative and poignant reminders of the limited knowledge of these explorers. For up until very recent times, as these maps show, there have been areas of the world remaining to be explored and "new found lands" to discover.

This lavishly illustrated book progresses chronologically, starting with the explorers of the ancient world, covering the East, the New World, the Pacific, Australia and the Modern Era. It will enrich our understanding of the voyages of discovery undertaken over the past 2000 years and will delight any map or history lover. Also inlcludes 150 color and black and white maps.

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  • Title New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration
  • Author Peter Whitfield
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York
  • Publication date 1998-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9780415920261 / 0415920264
  • Weight 2.85 lbs (1.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.73 x 9.05 x 1.1 in (24.71 x 22.99 x 2.79 cm)
  • Age range 18 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 13
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Discoveries in geography, Cartography - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97047767
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.9

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  • Library Journal, 10/01/1998, Page 114

About the author

Peter Whitfield runs his own company publishing facsimiles of historical maps. In 1995 he was curator of the British Library exhibit, "The Earth and the Heavens: The Map Maker's Art." He currently lives in London.

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