British History

Seminar Leaders:
Lindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California
Tawny Paul, University of California, Los Angeles

Image: “A new & correct map of the whole world: showing the situation of its principal parts, viz. the oceans, kingdoms, rivers, capes, ports, mountains, woods, trade winds, monsoons, variation of the compass, climats, &c with the most remarkable tracks of the bold attempts which have been made to find out the North East and North West Passages the projection of this map is call’d Mercator’s the design is to make it useful both for land and sea and it is laid down with all possible care, according to the newest and most exact observations,” by Herman Moll, Geographer. London, 1719. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.