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Subject:        "As it was" hydrographic charting history book
Date:   Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:57:51 +0000
From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To:     AMC <[log in to unmask]>, mapsL <[log in to unmask]>



I have just received an email advertisement for the followingbook.
It appears it's been published for a couple of years... it was reviewed
in Cartographica in 2006 (v39/#3)
But for map libraries that don't have it yet...


Seven years of columns by Rear Admiral Steve Ritchie, published in Hydro
International, are gathered in 'As it Was'.

The book walks you through all highlights of hydrographic history and
describes how things were done before the advent of such aids as
electronic ship fixing, GPS and side scan sonar etc.


Content:

   - Periploi
   - Carte Pisane
   - The Voyages of Admiral Zhen He
   - The Piri Reis Map
   - The Carta Marina Scandinavia
   - Views on Charts and Sailing Directions
   - The Rolz Atlas
   - Early Dutch Charts
   - Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer
   - Great Britain's Coasting Pilot
   - Le Neptune Francois
   - France Defines the Shape of Earth
   - and m! any more highlights of Hydrographic history.


What reviewers said about As it Was:

"The range of topics is broad and eclectic - Chinese voyages in the
Indian Ocean, early charts and atlases, eighteenth century determination
of the shape of the Earth, biographical information on hydrographic
explorers, the Challenger and other expeditions, underwater technology,
the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, determining
the greatest depth of the Pacific, and the destruction of Ripple Rock
(British Columbia) in 1958, to select only a few. Each essay has
historical depth, and with each is a list of further reading. This is a
splendid book for evening reading..." (Eric Mills, History of Oceanography)

"Most individual items are contained within two pages of the book, even
with the included illustrations, so one may open it anywhere and find a
piece from which one is guaranteed to learn something of interest."
(Alan Haugh, Geomatic W! orld)


 Price €34,-
     < BR>Attractive bulk rates are offered: 10 copies or more: 10%
discount, 20 copies or more: 15% discount. For bulk orders reply to this
address: [log in to unmask]



http://www.hydro-international.com/bookstore/id2-As_It_Was.html



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Dr Brendan Whyte
Ubon Ratchathani University
THAILAND



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