Research Catalog

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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Details

Description

160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 29 cm

Summary

In 1539, Olaus Magnus created his influential map of the Nordic countries, beautifully detailing depictions of everyday life, as well as charting the surrounding seas, and the fantastic marine animals that supposedly inhabited them. The author provides a thorough tour of the map's cartographic details, as well as a colorful look at its unusual pictorial and imaginative elements.

Subject

• Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557
• 1500 - 1599
• 1500-talet
• Sea monsters > Folklore
• Cartography > History > 16th century

Genre/Form

• Folklore
• History

Note

• Map on inside of dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780226925165 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 0226925161 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 9780226925189 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013019833

OCLC

• 858694469
• SCSB-12889005

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library