MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01709cam a2200301 i 4500
001 2013019833
003 DLC
005 20140321081823.0
008 130515s2013 iluab b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2013019833
020 $a9780226925165 (cloth : alkaline paper)
020 $z9780226925189 (e-book)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$erda$cICU$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGA951.O53$bN54 2013
082 00 $a912$223
100 1 $aNigg, Joe,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSea monsters :$ba voyage around the world's most beguiling map /$cJoseph Nigg.
264 1 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c[2013]
300 $a160 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aInvitation to a voyage -- Olaus Magnus -- Olaus Magnus's Carta marina -- Sebastian Münster's Monstra marina & terrestria -- Abraham Ortelius's Islandia -- Mythical ancestry -- Natural history inheritance -- The voyage -- The vast ocean -- The rockas -- The sea worm -- The duck tree -- The polypus -- Balena & orca -- The sea swine -- The sea unicorn -- The prister -- The ziphius -- The sea cow -- A sea rhinocerous -- Spermaceti -- A beached whale -- More pristers -- The island whale -- The sea serpent -- Caribdis -- Another prister -- A sea creature -- A rosmarus -- The kraken -- Landfall -- Carta marina full key -- Glossary of sea monster counterparts.
600 00 $aOlaus,$cMagnus, Archbishop of Uppsala,$d1490-1557.$tCarta marina.
650 0 $aSea monsters$xFolklore.
650 0 $aCartography$xHistory$y16th century.