Tracks on the Ocean Exhibition_The Van de Veldes Since its first BBC broadcast

Since its first BBC broadcast in 1925

Artist: John Blaeu

Created in response to the Polar Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum

drawing from the accounts of sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century ocean voyages to convey the realities of everyday life aboard the galleons sailing between England and the West Indies and beyond

Tracks on the Ocean Exhibition_The Van de Veldes Since its first BBC broadcastIn 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 of humanity's impact on the planet. Revealing their histories, Caputo uncovers a