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Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Kirsten A. Seaver (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press; illustrated edition edition (31 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0804749620
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804749626
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The "Vinland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever since in controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book offers a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the map which demonstrate that the map is a modern fake, such as literary evidence and several scientific ink analyses performed between 1967 and 2002. It explains a number of the riddles and provides evidence for both the identity of the mapmaker and the source of the parchment used, and applies current knowledge of medleval Norse culture and exploration to counter widespread misinformation about Norse voyages to North America and about the Norse world picture.

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Kirsten A. Seaver is an independent historian, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, a novelist, and a translator. She is the author of The Prozen Echo (Stanford, 1996).

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3.0 out of 5 stars Information overload, 27 Jul 2004
By D J BRADBURY (Whitehaven, Cumbria United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Maps, Myths, and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map (Paperback)
This book contains a huge amount of information- the footnotes alone run to 60 pages- which the author struggles to organise. Topics frequently reappear in odd corners of the book's nine thematic sections, so the comprehensive index is extremely valuable. For this reason, it's best read as a series of linked essays rather than a single narrative.
This is not a book about "why the Vinland Map must be a fake"- it presents little new evidence on that matter. Kirsten Seaver is more concerned with the doings and motives of the map's alleged creator, and of its subsequent owners and promoters. I remain unconvinced by her arguments about the origin and purpose of the Map, but her exposure of the machinations since 1957 when it emerged in the antiquarian book trade is fascinating and, to those who value scholarship, deeply troubling.
The background material she presents- on the real history of Norse exploration and settlement in the North Atlantic; on the real history of the early mapping of the far North; on the life of the alleged culprit, is also very interesting, and probably worth the paperback price on its own. Although I think she over-emphasises some aspects of this background (particularly in her debunking of the "medieval flat earth" myth), and wrongly downplays others (notably the Map's debt to the cartography of Andrea Bianco), I cannot but admire the effort that has gone into this book.
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