In Northern Mists (Vol. 1&2)
In Northern Mists (Vol. 1&2)

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-06-12

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13:

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"In Northern Mists" is one of the best-known works by a Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Antiquity, Before Pytheas_x000D_ Pytheas of Massalia: the Voyage to Thule_x000D_ Antiquity, After Pytheas_x000D_ The Early Middle Ages_x000D_ The Awakening of Mediæval Knowledge of the North_x000D_ Finns, Skridfinns (Lapps), and the First Settlement of Scandinavia_x000D_ The Voyages of the Norsemen: Discovery of Iceland and Greenland_x000D_ Voyages to the Uninhabited Parts of Greenland in the Middle Ages_x000D_ Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America…_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America_x000D_ Eskimo and Skræling_x000D_ The Decline of the Norse Settlements in Greenland_x000D_ Expeditions of the Norwegians to the White Sea, Voyages in the Polar Sea, Whaling and Sealing_x000D_ The North in Maps and Geographical Works of the Middle Ages_x000D_ John Cabot and the English Discovery of North America_x000D_ The Portuguese Discoveries in the North-West…

In Northern Mists
In Northern Mists

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1108071694

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Translated from Norwegian and published in 1911, this two-volume work traces Arctic exploration from antiquity to the sixteenth century.

Apocalyptic Cartography
Apocalyptic Cartography

Author: Chet Van Duzer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9004307273

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In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.

The Heavens and the Earth: Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World
The Heavens and the Earth: Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World

Author: Vittorio Cotesta

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 9004464727

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Vittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny. The comparative analysis carried out here suggests that they all shared a common human aspiration despite their differences: human being is unique; differences are details which enrich its image. Today, the traditions derived from these civilisations are often in competition and conflict. Reference to a common vision of humanity as a shared universal entity should lead, instead, to a quest for understanding and dialogue.