New Worlds

Take a journey into the past, to a world where exotic beasts and even stranger people stalk cartographic voids and where the borders between myth and reality are blurred. Here, gathered from five centuries of exploration, are over 200 maps of oceans and continents, mountains and forests, cities and shires. Presented in chronological order, these maps record the adventures and discoveries, not to mention the fantasies and outright lies of explorers, merchants and travellers.