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Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map

Title
Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map / Joseph Nigg.
Author
Nigg, Joe
Publication
  • Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Description
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 29 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Map on inside of dust jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
Contents
Invitation to a voyage. Olaus Magnus ; Olaus Magnus's Carta marina ; Sebastian Münster's Monstra marina & terrestria ; Abraham Ortelius's Islandia ; Mythical ancestry ; Natural history inheritance -- The voyage. The vast ocean ; The rockas ; The sea worm ; The duck tree ; The polypus ; Balena & Orca ; The sea swine ; The sea unicorn ; The prister ; The ziphius ; The sea cow ; A sea rhinocerous ; Spermaceti ; A beached whale ; More pristers ; The island whale ; The sea serpent ; Caribdis ; Another prister ; A sea creature ; A rosmarus ; The kraken ; Landfall -- Appendices. Carta marina full key ; Glossary of sea monster counterparts ; Timeline.
Call Number
Map Div. 13-7276
ISBN
  • 9780226925165 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 0226925161 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226925189 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013019833
OCLC
783150282
Author
Nigg, Joe, author.
Title
Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map / Joseph Nigg.
Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
Research Call Number
Map Div. 13-7276
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