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Author Scafi, Alessandro, author.

Title Maps of paradise / Alessandro Scafi.

Publication Info. London : The British Library, 2013.
©2013

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  236.24 Sca28m 2013    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 176 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
cartographic image cri rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Paradise nowhere and elsewhere -- Mapping the territory -- Mapping the Bible -- Mapping time -- Where is nowhere? -- Pinning down paradise -- Everything changes, nothing changes -- New life into an old debate -- Paradise and utopia.
Summary "For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? ... Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the 8th to the 21st century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. Over 100 illustrations celebrate this history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. The book is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and happiness, and the yearning to discover heaven on earth."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
Subject Paradise -- Maps.
Geographical myths.
Paradise.
Paradise -- Comparative studies.
Imaginary places -- Maps.
Cartography.
Cartography. (OCoLC)fst00848025
Geographical myths. (OCoLC)fst00940454
Imaginary places. (OCoLC)fst00967571
Paradise. (OCoLC)fst01198510
Paradiset i konsten.
Kartor -- historia.
Genre/Form Comparative studies. (OCoLC)fst01423767
Maps. (OCoLC)fst01423704
Maps.
ISBN 9780712357098 (hbk.)
0712357092 (hbk.)

 
    
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