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Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World
John Rennie Short
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| #2051857 in Books | 2009-07-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.70 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 224 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Lewis and Clark (and others) did not go into a wilderness. They had maps and lots of help from Native peoples who lived there.|By lyndonbrecht|This short book adequately makes the point that words such as "exploration" and "discover" are not fully adequate to describe how the New World was explored and mapped. The focus and most of the examples are on what is now the USA, and i||
"John Rennie Short has trawled through many dusty travel journals and pored over his share of early maps in order to reconstruct this fascinating cultural collision. His book ranges widely, from the cartographic artefacts of pre-Columbian civili
There’s no excuse for getting lost these days—satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America was largely undocumented, and expeditions like that of Lewis and Clark set out to map its expanse. As John Rennie Short argues in Cartographic Encounters, that mapping of the New World was only possib...
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