Mapping Travel

Jordana Dym is Professor of History at Skidmore College, USA. She is the author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839 (2006), co-editor with Karl Offen of Mapping Latin America (2011), and has published articles and book chapters in French, English and Spanish.

Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps

 Jordana Dym



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 Introduction

 1 Travel Writing and Mapping: Definitions and Sources

 2 Historiography

 3 Before the Line: Points and Lists

 4 Early Journey Maps: From Implicit to Explicit Lines

 5 Conventions of the Journey Map: Lines, Space and Time

 6 Journey Maps in the Eighteenth Century: Up and Down the Line

 7 Journey Maps in the Steam Age: Retracings, Erasure and Colored Lines

 8 The Leap from the Page to the Screen

 Conclusion

 Acknowledgments

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