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The Treasure of the Golden Atlas is an impressive visual history of exploration and cartography, filled with adventures and discoveries from global historical records. The book reveals how the world came to know itself, presenting an exceptional gallery of rare hand-colored ancient maps, paintings, and lithographs, many of which are found only in the author's collection.
With a chronological arrangement, the reader follows a captivating exploration from the geography of Ancient Babylon and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan, to the pirates sweeping the Caribbean and the campaigns of seafarers like Captain Cook and fearless African explorers. Their stories are told in an engaging and charming manner, bringing to life a variety of heroic explorers, treasure hunters, and deadly villains, accompanied by impressive illustrations of rare maps, drawings, and manuscripts.
The Golden Atlas takes you to a world full of darkness and dangers, placing you on ships tossed by storms, frozen expanses, and coasts of hostile regions to see how the lines that shaped the form of the modern world were drawn.
A critically acclaimed sequel to the Fabulous Atlas, which was described as "a spectacular, delightful, and amazing read," this new book is expected to follow the same success.
Pages: 256, Year of Publication: 1018, Dimensions: 18.9x18.9cm
Manufacturer
- Author
- Edward Brooke-Hitching
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- General History
- Theme
- World History, Historical Archives
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 2018
- Dimensions
- 20x25 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781471166822
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