Colorprint Scholastic World Atlas
Author : American Map Company (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Atlases
ISBN :
Author : American Map Company (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Atlases
ISBN :
Author : American Map Corporation
Publisher : American Map
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780841695528
Author : Kenneth F. Kister
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 1984-01-30
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Evaluative annotated bibliography of atlases including acquisition guidelines, sources for reviews of maps and atlases, and publishers.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Gerard L. Alexander
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN :
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Marion Sader
Publisher : New York : Bowker
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1970-08
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 1974-08
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226925188
The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired