TY - BOOK ID - 138459603 TI - Mapping travel : the origins and conventions of western journey maps AU - Dym, Jordana AU - Brill PY - 2021 SN - 9789004499782 9789004499775 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Book History and Cartography KW - History of Cartography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138459603 AB - Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car 'flight' and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story. ER -