Maps of the great explorers
Description
Through interviews with historians and cartographers as well as dramatizations and animations of voyages, looks at how maps were created and revised based on the travels of the great explorers.
Runtime
54 min
Subjects
Contributor
- Magalhães, Fernão de (1)
- Columbus, Christopher (11)
- Cook, James (3)
- Vespucci, Amerigo (1)
- La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1)
- comte de (1)
Genre
Date of Publication
2009
Database
Alexander Street
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