From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver
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During the summers of 1792-4 George Vancouver and the crew of the British naval ships Discovery and Chatham mapped the northwest coast of North America from Baja California to Alaska. Vancouver's voyage was the last, and the longest, of the great Pacific voyages of the late eighteenth century. Taking the art and technique of distant voyaging to a new level, Vancouver eliminated the possibility of a northwest passage, and his remarkably precise surveys...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:077480470X
ISBN13:9780774804707
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:UBC Press
Length:362 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"
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