Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography / Oscar I. Norwich ; bibliographical descriptions by Pam Kolbe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norwich, I.

Contributor:

Kolbe, Pam.

Stone, Jeffrey C.

Norwich, I.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Norwich, I.

Map collections.

Catalogs.

Africa--Maps--Bibliography--Catalogs.

Africa.

Norwich, I--Map collections--Catalogs.

Genre:

Maps.

Bibliographies.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 408 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

Second edition / revised and edited by Jeffrey C. Stone.

Other Title:

Maps of Africa

Place of Publication:

Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Continent of Africa

Southern Africa

Cape of Good Hope

Sea Charts

Northern Africa

Eastern Africa

Western Africa

Islands Town Plans and Ports.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Maps of Africa. 1983.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxvii) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Related Work:

Norwich, I. Maps of Africa.

ISBN:

0964900041

OCLC:

36533152