Overview: Integrates Historical Geography, GIScience, Geosciences and Textual Studies in a unique way.Utilizes quantitative and qualitative approaches relevant to Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and ArtThis book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other’s disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase ‘Hic sunt dracones‘ (‘Here be dragons‘), warning sailors of the dangers of drifting into uncharted waters. Nearly half a millennium earlier, the practice of ‘earth-writing’ (geographia) emerg
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