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Sea monsters: a voyage around the world's most beguiling map
Sea monsters: a voyage around the world's most beguiling map
Author
Nigg, Joe
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
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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
Carta marina full key
Glossary of sea monster counterparts.
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Cartography
Cartography -- History -- 16th century
Folklore
History
Olaus
Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557. Carta marina
Sea monsters
Sea monsters -- Folklore
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9780226925165
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