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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主要作者: Dym, Jordana, 1967- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2021]
叢編:Map history (Brill Academic Publishers)
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書本目錄:
  • 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.