Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814 - Couverture rigide

The University Of Virginia Library

 
9781574271386: Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814

Synopsis

In competition for a mostly unclaimed continent, Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Portuguese explorers guarded their maps as state secrets, as knowledge of the landscape was the key to acquisition. Though technically innacurate and incomplete, the early maps reveal active imaginations.

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