Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map, Nigg
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Smart phones and GPS give us many possible routes to navigate our daily commute, warn us of traffic and delays, and tell us where to find a cup of coffee. But what if there were sea serpents and giant man-eating lobsters waiting just off course if we were to lose our way? Would there be an app for that? In the sixteenth century, these and other monsters were thought to swim the northern waters, 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, well-known
Booktopia - Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet van Duzer
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
