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Treasures from the Map Room - A Journey through the Bodleian Collections (Hardcover)
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Treasures from the Map Room - A Journey through the Bodleian Collections (Hardcover)
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This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary
maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century
Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the
fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China - the earliest example
of Chinese merchant cartography - and an early world map from the
medieval Islamic Book of Curiosities, together with more recent
examples of fictional places drawn in the twentieth century, such
as C.S. Lewis's own map of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien's map of
Middle Earth. As well as the works of famous mapmakers Mercator,
Ortelius, Blaeu, Saxton and Speed, the book also includes lesser
known but historically significant works: early maps of the Moon,
of the transit of Venus, hand-drawn estate plans and early European
maps of the New World. There are also some surprising examples:
escape maps printed on silk and carried by pilots in the Second
World War in case of capture on enemy territory; the first
geological survey of the British Isles showing what lies beneath
our feet; a sixteenth-century woven tapestry map of Worcestershire;
a map plotting outbreaks of cholera and a jigsaw map of India from
the 1850s. Behind each of these lies a story, of intrepid
surveyors, ambitious navigators, chance finds or military
victories. Drawing on the unique collection in the Bodleian
Library, these stunning maps range from single cities to the solar
system, span the thirteenth to the twenty-first century and cover
most of the world.
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