Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map

Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map / Joseph Nigg.

Author/creator	Nigg, Joe author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright Notice	©2013
Description	160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Subject(s)	Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557. Carta marina. Sea monsters--Folklore. Cartography--History --16th century.

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.
General note	Map on inside of dust jacket.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
LCCN	2013019833
ISBN	9780226925165 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN	0226925161 (cloth : alkaline paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	GA951 .O53 N54 2013	✔ Available	Place Hold