Floating around the margins and swimming through the middle of maps between the eighth and sixteenth centuries was a whole aquarium of magical, fantastical sea monsters. Chet Van Duzer makes the introductions to all these various leviathans, sirens, mermaids, and sea serpents, who inhabit the pages of his book, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps.
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