The Art of the Map

An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments

Dennis Reinhartz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2012
Sterling (Verlag)
978-1-4027-6592-6 (ISBN)

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An illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries, that explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. It includes monsters real and imagined; ships actual and archetypical; and fauna ranging from buffalo to unicorns.

This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. Here there be monsters real and imagined; ships actual and archetypical; newly discovered flora such as corn and tobacco; fauna ranging from buffalo to unicorns; godlike beings and fantasy-like depictions of native peoples. The stunningly rendered images illuminate an entire world.

Dennis Reinhartz is professor emeritus of the University of Texas at Arlington, where he spent 35 five years as a professor of history and Russian. He has edited and contributed chapters to numerous academic books, including Mapping of Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwest Frontier and The Mapping of the American Southwest.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.11.2012
Vorwort	John Noble Wilford
Zusatzinfo	all in color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	232 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Reisen ► Karten / Stadtpläne / Atlanten ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4027-6592-4 / 1402765924
ISBN-13	978-1-4027-6592-6 / 9781402765926
Zustand	Neuware