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Shedding the Veil: Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World
by Thomas Suarez
Binding: Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
List Price: USD $85.00
Weight: 238
Dimension: H: 0.79 x L: 11.73 x W: 8.82 inches
ISBN 10: 9810208693
ISBN 13: 9789810208691
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This book provides an overview of Europe's exploration and discovery beyond her own confines. It tackles the subject via an analysis of maps dating from circa 1434 to 1865, with an emphasis on the period before 1600. The book begins with an appraisal of the peculiar circumstances which led late medieval Europe to pursue long distance travel, both overland and by sea, introduces cosmographic traditions inherited from classical times, and investigates pre Columbian excursions into the western ocean. Finally, the great voyages and 'mappaemundi' of the early 16th century are described in depth. After 1600 the focus begins to narrow to North America and particulary to the colonization of the American Northeast. All maps discussed in detail are illustrated.

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