DOC A Staff Officer in the Peninsula: an Officer of the British Staff Corps Cavalry During the Peninsula Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars by E. W. Buckham in History

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Take a journey into the past; to a world where exotic beasts and even stranger locals stalk cartographic voids; where sea monsters and floating islands lurk beyond uncertain shores; where the borders between myth and reality are blurred. Here; gathered from five centuries of exploration; are over 200 maps of oceans and continents; mountains and forests; cities and shires. Presented in chronological order; these maps record the adventures and discoveries - not to mention fantasies and outright lies - of explorers; merchants and travelers. Taken together; they chart our discovery of the world as science; legend; politics and art are blended together by the cartographer's craft. Presenting an illustrated history of the Age of Discovery; New Worlds displays our finest maps and tells the stories of the explorers; rulers; scientists; artists and charlatans who created them.