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From Maps to Metaphors : The Pacific World of George Vancouver

Fisher, Robin

eBook 1993

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Abstract

 Now available in paperback for the first time, From Maps to Metaphors, the classic on Vancouver's voyage, illuminates the European and Native experience of the "discovery" of the Pacific coast
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Descrizione *From Maps to Metaphors : The Pacific World of George Vancouver. - 1st ed
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1993
©1993. - 1 online resource (366 pages)
Note Formato pdf/epub - Accesso riservato secondo le condizioni contrattuali https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibo/detail.action?docID=3412178
ISBN 9780774853897
9780774804707
Primo Autore
Fisher, Robin
Autore secondario
Johnston, Hugh
Anno pubblicazione 1993
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- How the Squamish Remember George Vancouver -- Introduction -- 1 James Cook and the European Discovery of Polynesia -- 2 Myth and Reality: The Theoretical Geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver -- 3 Vancouver's Survey Methods and Surveys -- 4 Vancouver's Chronometers -- 5 A Notable Absence: The Lateness and Lameness of Russian Discovery and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1639-1803 -- 6 Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britain's Imperialism of Free Trade -- 7 Seduction before Sovereignty: Spanish Efforts to Manipulate the Natives in Their Claims to the Northwest Coast -- 8 Dangerous Liaisons: Maquinna, Quadra, and Vancouver in Nootka Sound, 1790-5 -- 9 Art and Exploration: The Responses of Northwest Coast Native Artists to Maritime Explorers and Fur Traders -- 10 Kidnapped: Tuki and Huru's Involuntary Visit to Norfolk Island in 1793 -- 11 Banks and Menzies: Evolution of a Journal -- 12 The Intellectual Discovery and Exploration of Polynesia -- 13 The Burden of Terra Australis: Experiences of Real and Imagined Lands -- Appendices: Vancouver's Instruments, Charts, and Drawings -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Contributors