Discoveries In Geography Cartography History Books
Books con argomento Discoveries In Geography Cartography History
Exploring and Mapping Alaska
Postnikov Alexey
Falk Marvin
Black Lydia (TRN)
edizioni Univ of Alaska Pr collana Univ of Alaska Pr (Hardcover)
Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire 18th century. During the next 126 years the struggle to develop and refine geographic knowledge of the vast region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska met with many obstacles, including...
New Found Lands
Whitfield Peter
edizioni Routledge collana Routledge (Hardcover)
Focuses on the maps of early travelers and the intellectual context of exploration with details on how the explorers and their patrons understood their expanding world, their place in it, and what they were seeking