Sea monsters
Subtitle: a voyage around the world's most beguiling map
By: Joseph Nigg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780226925165; 9780226925189
Subjects: Sea monsters; Folklore; Cartography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Invitation to a voyage; title: Olaus Magnus; title: Olaus Magnus's Carta marina; title: Sebastian Münster's Monstra marina & terrestria; title: Abraham Ortelius's Islandia; title: Mythical ancestry; title: Natural history inheritance; title: The voyage; title: The vast ocean; title: The rockas; title: The sea worm; title: The duck tree; title: The polypus; title: Balena & orca; title: The sea swine; title: The sea unicorn; title: The prister; title: The ziphius; title: The sea cow; title: A sea rhinocerous; title: Spermaceti; title: A beached whale; title: More pristers; title: The island whale; title: The sea serpent; title: Caribdis; title: Another prister; title: A sea creature; title: A rosmarus; title: The kraken; title: Landfall; title: Carta marina full key; title: Glossary of sea monster counterparts.