Like the chimeric creatures it catalogues, the book “Sea Monsters,” by Joseph Nigg, is a bit mixed up. The book focuses on a single map, Olaus Magnus’ Carta Marina – a dizzying chart of Northern ...
At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave birth to a sea full of extraordinary danger. The original "Carta Marina" was 23 square ...
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