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Whitfield, Peter. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration

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(015945) Whitfield, Peter. New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. New York: Routledge, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 200 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Color illustrations. The author concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did explorers and their patrons understand theeir expanding world and their places 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? The book displays the geolgraphical ideas of the explorers through the maps that they used or the new maps which they caused to be made ISBN: 0415920264 (Cartography, Maps)