Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

By Edward C. Carter and Edward C Carter II

Papers given at a conference on Scientific Exploration in North America to 1930 with topics including Cartography, Oceanic Exploration, Art, Anthropology, Lewis and Clark, and the West. This book adds much to our quest for knowledge of who and where we are by illuminating such themes as the role of maps and mapmaking in defining our national identify, the origins of Western exploration, the cultural clash found in the best-selling account of a 19th-century physician-explorer with Arctic peoples, the role of art in the service of science in bringing these newly discovered places and peoples into the Amer. parlor, and the impact of Mormon farming techniques on John Wesley Powell's famed 1878 Arid Region Report. Black and white maps and illus.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692317
• ISBN13: 9780871692313
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 12.6"