Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World

by John Rennie Short

There's no excuse for getting lost these days--satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America was largely undocumented, and expeditions like that of Lewis and Clark set out to map its expanse. As John Rennie Short argues in Cartographic Encounters, that mapping of the New World was only possible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861894368
• ISBN13: 9781861894366
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.3"