Tracks on the Ocean (eBook)

A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel

SARA CAPUTO (Autor)

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2024
ProFile (Verlag)
9781782838876 (ISBN)

Infos

Longlisted for the 2025 BSHS Hughes Prize 'Enthralling' Philip Ball'Ingenious' Sujit SivasundaramIn Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped maps and the way that we view the world. From Captain Cook's route across the South Seas to the disorientating power of digital technology, the tracks we've left on the oceans - trading, exploring and conquering - are a hidden record of humanity's impact on the planet. Revealing their histories, Caputo uncovers a fascinating new history of maritime travel and modernity.Weaving human history, cartography, literature and climate science, Tracks on the Ocean reveals how, on the path to discovery, we have changed the world.

Autor

Dr Sara Caputo is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. A specialist in maritime and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history, she is the winner of numerous awards, including the Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize. She has been a Visiting Fellow in Germany, California and at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 16pp section colourB7W images throughout
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 18th Century History • A History of the World in 47 Borders • British Empire • Cartography • History books • Maps • Master and Commander • Napoleonic history • naval battles • ocean book • Prisoners of Geography • Royal Navy • submarine warfare • ' The Wager David Grann
• ISBN-13: 9781782838876 / 9781782838876