Bibliograph

Sea monsters, a voyage around the world's most beguiling map, Joseph Nigg

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Sea monsters, a voyage around the world's most beguiling map, Joseph Nigg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sea monsters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

858694469

Responsibility statement

Joseph Nigg

Sub title

a voyage around the world's most beguiling map

Table Of Contents

Invitation to a voyage. Olaus Magnus ; Olaus Magnus's Carta marina ;Sebastian Münster'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 -- Appendices. Carta marina full key ; Glossary of sea monster counterparts ; Timeline

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