Mapping Antarctica
Subtitle: a five hundred year record of discovery
By: Robert Clancy, John Manning, Henk Brolsma
Contributors: Manning, John, 1937- author; Brolsma, Henk, author
Series: Springer Praxis books; Springer Praxis books
Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789400743205; 9789400743212
Subjects: Sources; History; Cartography; Discovery and exploration; Maps
Description: Everyone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contemporary maps telling the story - one that should be attractive to the widest audience as it is a unique approach complimenting what has gone before and providing something different for all interested in Antarctica.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arctic and Antarctic regions are not poles apart; title: Drivers of discovery; title: Antarctica; title: the concept : from Ptolemy to Cook; title: Antarctica; title: the reality : from Cook to the International Geographical Congress; title: Antarctica; title: the heroic age : heroes, legends, and land; title: Antarctica; title: wings over the continent : from Wilkins to war; title: Antarctica 1940-1960 : a second world war and a new order of business; title: Consolidation of political interest and national mapping programs (1950-2010); title: Antarctic science comes of age : window on the world (1960-2010); title: Atlas maps.