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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mapping the north
    sub title: myth, exploration, encounter
  name:
    name part: Forss, Charlotta
    name part: 1986-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 214 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm
  abstract: Maps have played a central role in our understanding of what and where defines the North. At the same time, the northernmost reaches of our world have, for much of history, been difficult to navigate and verify, from the mythical islands on medieval maps to the itineraries of Arctic explorers in the nineteenth century. This has inspired inventive mapping strategies, as well as ongoing struggles to define what constitutes believable cartographic information. This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader on a journey to examine the rich, and sometimes contentious, history of how mapmakers have understood and processed knowledge about a region they described as the North. In the process of mapping, the North as a place changed from an inaccessible and vividly imagined unknown to a region claimed and exploited by southern nations. What emerges is a riveting story of exploration, survival, and cartographic skill bound up with conceptions of nature, religion and politics extending far beyond the Arctic.
  note: Charlotta Forss.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: r------
  subject:
    topic: Cartography
    geographic: Arctic regions
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Arctic regions
    topic: Historical geography
  subject:
    geographic: Arctic regions
    topic: Discovery and exploration
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Cartographie
    geographic: Arctique
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    geographic: Arctique
    topic: Géographie historique
  subject:
    geographic: Arctique
    topic: Découverte et exploration
  subject:
    topic: Cartography
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Arctic Regions
  classification: GA355 .F67 2025
  classification: 526.09113
  identifier: 9781851245727
  identifier: 1851245723
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 250721
    record change date: 20251208140015.5
    record identifier: in00005674317
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng