Norwich's Maps Of Africa: An Illustrated And Annotated Carto-bibliography - Hardcover

Norwich, Oscar

9780964900042: Norwich's Maps Of Africa: An Illustrated And Annotated Carto-bibliography

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0964900041 ISBN 13: 9780964900042

Publisher: Terra Nova/Mexico, 1997

Over the course of forty years, Oscar Norwich accumulated the world's greatest private collection of African maps. This catalog comprises a record of foreign knowledge of the continent from the "Age of Exploration" to modern times, and demonstrates how the rest of the world was quick to learn the shape of the African continent but slow to grasp the realities of its interior. From the fabulous creatures depicted on early maps to the blank "regions unknown" of later ones, from those that depicted the kingdom of the legendary Prester John to maps as late as the 19th century that still featured the imaginary Mountains of Kong, this collection documents a long and troubled history of developing knowledge of the continent.

Each map is illustrated and carefully described, including bibliographical citations. Originally published in 1983, the book has been revised and edited by Jeffrey Stone for this second edition.

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8 3/4 x 11 1/2 trim. 346 maps.

About the Author:

OSCAR I. NORWICH (1910-1994) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa; he was a practicing surgeon and one of the world's foremost authorities on African maps. PAM KOLBE received her degree in librarianship from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. JEFFREY STONE has taught at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and has published some twenty books and articles on Africa's cartographic past.

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