The Vinland Map

Author : Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0804749639

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Maps, Myths, and Men by Kirsten A. Seaver Pdf

The "Vínland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since—in 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 : Raleigh Ashlin Skelton,Thomas E. Marston,George Duncan Painter,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Thomas A. Cahill,Bruce H. Kusko,Laurence C. Witten II
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0300065205

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The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation by Raleigh Ashlin Skelton,Thomas E. Marston,George Duncan Painter,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Thomas A. Cahill,Bruce H. Kusko,Laurence C. Witten II Pdf

The 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 : Vinland Map Study Group
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1904367208

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The Vinland Map by Vinland Map Study Group Pdf

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847658555

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On The Map by Simon Garfield Pdf

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.

Author : Leifur Eiricksson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141991559

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The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson Pdf

The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1973-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906980

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The Vinland Sagas by Anonim Pdf

One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America by Norsemen five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Together, the direct, forceful twelfth-century Graenlendinga Saga and the more polished and scholarly Eirik's Saga, written some hundred years later, recount how Eirik the Red founded an Icelandic colony in Greenland and how his son, Leif the Lucky, later sailed south to explore - and if possible exploit - the chance discovery by Bjarni Herjolfsson of an unknown land. In spare and vigorous prose they record Europe's first surprise glimpse of the eastern shores of the North American continent and the natives who inhabited them.

Author : Adam Shoalts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143194002

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A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it’s never been told before. Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose--it invites us to go somewhere we've never been. It’s an account of what we know, but also a trace of what we long for. Ten Maps conjures the world as it appeared to those who were called upon to map it. What would the new world look like to wandering Vikings, who thought they had drifted into a land of mythical creatures, or Samuel de Champlain, who had no idea of the vastness of the landmass just beyond the treeline? Adam Shoalts, one of Canada’s foremost explorers, tells the stories behind these centuries old maps, and how they came to shape what became “Canada.” It’s a story that will surprise readers, and reveal the Canada we never knew was hidden. It brings to life the characters and the bloody disputes that forged our history, by showing us what the world looked like before it entered the history books. Combining storytelling, cartography, geography, archaeology and of course history, this book shows us Canada in a way we've never seen it before.

Author : James Robert Enterline
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801875472

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Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus by James Robert Enterline Pdf

This revealing analysis of Medieval cartography and native American travel upends conventional narratives about discovering the New World. For generations, American schools have taught children that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. But evidence shows that Leif Erikson set foot on the continent centuries earlier. As debate continues over which explorer deserves the credit, early maps of North America suggest that we may be asking the wrong questions. How did medieval Europeans have such specific geographic knowledge of North America, a land even their most daring adventurers had not yet discovered? In Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus, James Robert Enterline presents new evidence that traces this knowledge to the cartographic skills of indigenous people of the high Arctic, who, he contends, provided the basis for medieval maps of large parts of North America. Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe’s discovery of the New World.

Author : Raleigh Ashlin Skelton,Thomas E. Marston,George Duncan Painter,Yale University. Library
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39076002242357

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The Vinland Map by Raleigh Ashlin Skelton,Thomas E. Marston,George Duncan Painter,Yale University. Library Pdf

Facsimile 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 : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Avery
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592407804

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On the Map by Simon Garfield Pdf

Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.

Author : Kirsten A. Seaver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0804731616

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The Frozen Echo by Kirsten A. Seaver Pdf

Using 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.

Author : Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher : Mark Monmonier
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0805025812

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Drawing the Line by Mark S. Monmonier Pdf

Argues 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

Author : Geraldine Barnes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0859916081

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Viking America by Geraldine Barnes Pdf

Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.

Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226149820

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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps by Benjamin B. Olshin Pdf

Concerns 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 : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UVA:X002737091

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Medieval Maps by P. D. A. Harvey Pdf

Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.