Roger McCoy

On the Edge

Mapping North America's Coasts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tracks the progress of a four hundred year effort to map the coasts of North America after 1492. A set of maps show the progression of exploration over time, and narratives of the voyages illustrate the trials and dangers faced by the men as they made their maps.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199744046
• ISBN-10: 0199744041
• Artikelnr.: 34927718

Autorenporträt

Roger M. McCoy is Professor Emeritus, University of Utah, and the author of Ending in Ice.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The urge to discover lands and make maps
Part I: THE PROJECT BEGINS
2. Earliest ventures to the Northwest Passage: John Cabot and others
Part II: 1576-1632
3. Sailors and sailing in the sixteenth century.
4. Martin Frobisher succumbs to gold fever
5. John Davis makes a near miss
6. Henry Hudson has a very bad day
7. Further efforts probe the east coasts
Part III: 1719-1789
8. From the Pacific and through the tundra
Part IV: 1822-1878
9. John Franklin's expedition fails, but opens the door to success
10. The Franklin searchers almost finish the map
11. Finding the North Pole
Part V: FINISHING THE PROJECT
12. Amundsen sails through
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index