Tracks on the Ocean
A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel
$31.06
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2026
Summary
‘Enthralling’ Philip Ball
‘Ingenious’ Sujit Sivasundaram
In Tracks on the Ocean, Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey lines themselves reshaped maps and the way that we view the world. From Captain Cook’s route across the South Seas to the disorientating power of digital technology, the tracks we’ve left on the oceans - trading, exploring and conquering - are a hidden record …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788168830 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788168836 |
| Author: | Dr Sara Caputo |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
‘An erudite and accomplished account of human wayfaring’ - New Statesman
‘Fascinating … A fine, clear writer, Caputo tells a number of good stories which speak eloquently’ - Times Literary Supplement
‘Full of extraordinary detail … Caputo does a fine job in conveying the pioneering, fearless spirit of those early journeys, made into the unknown’ -Geographical
‘A triumph … an act of impressive scholarship’ - BBC History Magazine
‘Intriguing and original, Tracks on the Ocean has a scope and relevance that transcends the high seas’ - Maxim Samson, author, Invisible Lines
Dr Sara Caputo
Dr. Sara Caputo is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. A specialist in maritime history, she is the winner of the Prince Consort and Thirwell Prize, as well as the Boydell and Brewer Prize. Tracks on the Ocean was awarded the Ideas Prize for non-fiction.
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