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The Golden Atlas : The Greatest Explorations Quests And Discoveries On Maps
Hardback Edition: 1
The Golden Atlas reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author's collection.
Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders.
Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts.
Pages : 256
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Publication date : 2018-11-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Earth Science, Cartography, Map-making & Projections