New found lands
Subtitle: maps in the history of exploration
By: Peter Whitfield.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Discoveries in geography.; Cartography -- History.
Description: In this book Peter Whitfield concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did explorers and their patrons understand their expanding world and their place 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?

Historical maps are vitally important in answering these questions, and this book displays the geographical ideas of the explorers themselves, through the maps that they used or the new maps which they caused to be made.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.