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In fact, what attracted Yang Jing was not the stacks of second-hand books like Xiaoshan on the stall, but the old-looking maps hanging on the stall stands.
Yang Jing leaned over and carefully looked at these ancient looking maps.
The owner of the stall was busy talking to another customer, and when he saw Yang Jing coming over, he just said hello and continued to talk to the customer, and Yang Jing was happy that no one bothered.
There are seven maps in total, all of which are well protected with plastic covers.
This is also a common way for flea market stall owners to protect some fragile items.
Maps are all pieces of paper that can be damaged if you don't pay attention, so it's no surprise that the stall owner is protecting these old-looking maps in this way.
One of the seven maps, the "youngest" one, was over 100 years old, it was a World War I map, and it was apparently a military map from one of the Allied commands.
Yang Jing took out a magnifying glass from his pocket, which he had bought in the shop next to the hotel after a full meal last night.
I put a magnifying glass in the lower right corner of the map, and sure enough, I saw the source of this map.
This large-scale map of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Central Powers of World War I, clearly shows some of the military deployments near Plovdiv, an important town in central Bulgaria at that time, with different colored pens.
It is clear that this map was a military map of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, one of the Allied powers at the time, at war with the Allied forces near Plovdiv.
If such a map were placed in China, it would probably be a great cultural relic.
But in Europe and the United States, such a map cannot be said to be a bad street, at least there are definitely a lot.
In particular, this kind of local military combat map, which only involves one place, is even less valuable.
Yang Jing shook his head slightly, and sentenced this map to death.
Anyway, he didn't have the intention of collecting this map, and he wasn't a war enthusiast, so he really didn't love this kind of bloody map.
The second map is a map of the United States from the late nineteenth century, which is not very collectible, pass.
The map of the third chapter is also a map from the United States, but it is earlier in time, and this map was also passed by Yang Jing without hesitation.
The fourth map piqued Yang Jing's interest.
Strictly speaking, this map is not a map, but a nautical chart, but this nautical chart is very rough, and Yang Jing can barely make out that this nautical chart should be a nautical chart of the North Atlantic Ocean and some of the east coasts of the United States and Canada.
This nautical chart is not made of paper, but seems to be made of legendary sheepskin, but because it is wrapped in a plastic seal, Yang Jing cannot confirm the material of this nautical chart.
The east coasts of the United States and Canada can be barely discerned from this somewhat blurred nautical chart, but of course Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic and Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada.
And this nautical chart does not seem to be a complete nautical chart, but more like a part torn from a larger nautical chart.
For at the bottom of the nautical chart, that is, near Bermuda, the map shows a torn ripple, and above, almost half of Greenland, is also torn open.
Obviously, this nautical chart should have belonged to a relatively large and complete nautical chart, but for some unknown reason, this part was torn off.
What attracted Yang Jing the most was not the raw materials of this nautical chart, nor the history of this nautical chart, but the clear locations marked on this nautical chart and a broken route.
There are very few places on this map, except for Greenland, Newfoundland, Boston and New York, and even Iceland is not specifically marked on this map, but only in the shape of an island.
Boston and New York, of course, are among the oldest cities in the United States.
It is not surprising that this map is a hand-drawn nautical chart from the early eighteenth century, and that these two famous cities are featured.
In the eighteenth century, New York and Boston were undoubtedly important port cities on the east coast of North America, and the metropolises of merchant ships between Europe and North America reached these two cities, so there are several routes from Europe to North America on this hand-drawn nautical chart.
In addition, there are routes that depart from New York and Boston and extend south, and it is clear that it is the route to the Caribbean.
Others extend north from these two cities, along the east coast of North America, through Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and then turn east, across the North Atlantic to Europe, which is the North Atlantic Route.
In fact, in the XVIII century, there were already several routes to the North Atlantic.
Although the North Atlantic is relatively windy and rough, it is the closest to reach North America from Europe, so in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many routes from Europe to North America took the North Atlantic.
For example, the most famous Titanic, when it made its maiden voyage, took the North Atlantic route, but the big ship was so unfortunate that it encountered an iceberg on the way, and then sank directly in the deep sea of more than 4,000 meters in the North Atlantic.
These routes looked fine, except for the one that started from Boston, went north, and after arriving at Newfoundland, instead of turning east, continued north along the east coast of North America, through the Labrador Sea and the Davis Strait.
That route was cut off as soon as it reached the Davis Strait.
Although it is impossible to know the exact destination of this route, it is a strange route.
You know, even in the modern era when the maritime industry is extremely developed, except for some fixed routes and research ships, there are very few commercial ships to take this Arctic route, let alone the era of sailing ships in the eighteenth century.
In those days, it was good to walk the Davis Strait in the summer, but if you walked there in the spring and autumn or winter, it was simply looking for death.
But why is there such a strange route on this chart?
What Yang Jing couldn't figure out the most was that in the eighteenth century, when the navies of the European powers were drawing nautical charts, they had basically begun to draw them with special paper, and the kind of hand-drawn sheepskin nautical charts were almost extinct for the navies of the European powers.
The only people who insisted on making nautical charts in sheepskin were the pirates who roamed the seas, except for a very small number of private merchant ships PS: Bow and thank you for the 100 tips of "Icy Octave" and "Flame Tianhuang".