Sea monsters : a voyage around the world's most beguiling map /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nigg, Joe (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Olaus, > Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, > 1490-1557. > Carta marina. Sea monsters > Folklore. Cartography > History > 16th century.

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.