Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map / Joseph Nigg
- Author:
- Nigg, Joe
- Published:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2013
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780226925165 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226925161 (cloth : alkaline paper) - Note:
- Map on inside of dust jacket.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
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