The Sea Chart

by John Blake and John Blake

Book Overview

Ocean sailing needed skill, courage, and experience, and the sea chart was the tool by which ships of trade, transport, or conquest navigated. This examines the history and development of the chart and the nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms as a means of safe and accurate seaborne navigation. The Italian merchant-venturers of the early thirteenth century developed the earliest "portolan" pilot charts of the Mediterranean. The subsequent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184486314X
• ISBN13: 9781844863143
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.3" x 12.0"