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Golden Atlas

The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps

Brooke-Hitching, Edward

Golden Atlas

Golden Atlas

The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps

Golden Atlas

 

A gallery of antique maps, paintings and engravings offering a visual history of exploration, global discovery and adventure


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Beschrijving Golden Atlas

he Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created.

The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author's collection. Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders.

Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts.


ISBN
9781471166822
Pagina's
256
Verschenen
NUR
740
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Simon and Schuster UK

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