MAPPING THE NORTH: MYTH EXPLORATION ENCOUNTER (HB)

Featuring stunning full colour illustrations, this remarkable book explores the rich history of how mapmakers have understood and processed knowledge about the Arctic, a region they described as ‘the farthest north’. In the process of mapping, the north as a place changed from an inaccessible and vividly imagined unknown to a region claimed and exploited by southern nations. What emerges is a riveting story of exploration, survival and cartographic skill bound up with conceptions of nature, religion and politics extending far beyond the Arctic.