Format:
Book
Title:
Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling marine map / Joseph Nigg.
Author:
Nigg, Joe, author.
Call Number:
912 NIGG
Publisher, Date:
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Description:
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Subjects:
Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557. Carta marina.
Sea monsters -- Folklore.
Cartography -- History -- 16th century.
Colorado Authors Collection.
Contents:
Invitation to a voyage -- Olaus Magnus -- Olaus Magnus's Carta marina -- Sebastian Mùˆnster'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.
ISBN:
9780226925165 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226925161 (cloth : alkaline paper)
* 9780226925189 (e-book)