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Author: Raleigh Ashlin Skelton
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780300065206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Vinland Map, dated to about 1440 AD, before Columbus landed in the Americas, is a world map that shows the north-east American coast. This new edition reprints unaltered the original text and discusses the map's authenticity, provenance and compositional and structural aspects.
Author: Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780804749633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "Vínland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever sincein controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book contains a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the map that demonstrate it is a modern fake, such as literary evidence and several scientific ink analyses performed between 1967 and 2002. The author explains a number of the riddles and provides evidence for both the identity of the mapmaker and the source of the parchment used, and she applies current knowledge of medieval Norse culture and exploration to counter widespread misinformation about Norse voyages to North America and about the Norse world picture.
Author: R. A. Skelton
Publisher:
Published: 1965-01-01
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780300009590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raleigh Ashlin Skelton
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFacsimile of world map including Iceland, Greenland and Vinland, thought to have been compiled at Basle around 1440. Extensive comments and attempts at interpretation. History and description of manuscript.
Author: Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780804731614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait.
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Published: 1961
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kendra Taira Field
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0300182287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements. When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field’s beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.
Author: John M. Chalmers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 0470749067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will provide a survey of the major areas in which information derived from vibrational spectroscopy investigations and studies have contributed to the benefit of forensic science, either in a complementary or a unique way. This is highlighted by examples taken from real case studies and analyses of forensic relevance, which provide a focus for current and future applications and developments.
Author: Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-10-29
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 022614982X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.
Author: Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher: Mark Monmonier
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780805025811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that maps can be manipulated to distort the truth, and shows how they have been used for propaganda in international affairs, political districting, and finding toxic dump sites
