Tracks On The Ocean. A History Of Trailblazing, Maps And Maritime Travel

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Profile Trade
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 310 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From their first appearance on Renaissance maps, linear tracks representing maritime voyages have shaped the way we see the world. But why do we depict journeys as lines, and what is their deeper meaning Ferdinand Magellans route to the Pacific embodied the promise of adventure and colonisation, while the scientific charts of the Royal Navy inspired others to plan conquests, navigate treacherous waters and establish settlements across the oceans.In Tracks on the Ocean, prize-winning historian Sara Caputo charts a hidden history of the modern world through the tracks left on maps and the sea. Taking us from ancient Greek itineraries to twenty-first-century digital mapping, via the voyages of Drake and Cook, the decks of Napoleonic warships and the boiler rooms of ocean liners, Caputo reveals how marks on maps have changed the course of modernity.

ISBN: 9781788168823