Mapping travel : the origins and conventions of western journey maps /

Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the result...

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Tác giả chính: Dym, Jordana, 1967- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2021]
Loạt:Map history (Brill Academic Publishers)
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3026163
Mục lục:
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Introduction
  • Travel Writing and Mapping: Definitions and Sources
  • Historiography
  • Before the Line: Points and Lists
  • Early Journey Maps: From Implicit to Explicit Lines
  • Conventions of the Journey Map: Lines, Space and Time
  • Journey Maps in the Eighteenth Century: Up and Down the Line
  • Journey Maps in the Steam Age: Retracings, Erasure and Colored Lines
  • The Leap from the Page to the Screen
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References.