Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Cartographer
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Logbooks
Author: Anne FarrowPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081957306X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man, to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely. When writer Anne Farrow discovered the significance of the logbooks for the Africa and two other ships in 2004, her mother had been recently diagnosed with dementia. As Farrow bore witness to the impact of memory loss on her mother's sense of self, she also began a journey into the world of the logbooks and the Atlantic slave trade, eventually retracing part of the Africa's long-ago voyage to Sierra Leone. As the narrative unfolds in The Logbooks, Farrow explores the idea that if our history is incomplete, then collectively we have forgotten who we are—a loss that is in some ways similar to what her mother experienced. Her meditations are well rounded with references to the work of writers, historians, and psychologists. Forthright, well researched, and warmly recounted, Farrow's writing is that of a novelist's, with an eye for detail. Using a wealth of primary sources, she paints a vivid picture of the eighteenth-century Connecticut slavers. The multiple narratives combine in surprising and effective ways to make this an intimate confrontation with the past, and a powerful meditation on how slavery still affects us. A Driftless Connecticut Series Book, funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742. The first expedition, 1725-1730, and its setting. The geographical knowledge of the north Pacific Ocean at the beginning of the eighteenth century
Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bering Island (Russia)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Translated from the logs and journals. Includes a chart of the voyage of Bering and Chirikov in the St. Peter and the St. Paul from Kamchatka to the Alaska coast and return, 1741, based on the log books and other original records and adjusted to known physical conditions by Ellsworth P. Bertholf (v.1).
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742
Author: Frank Alfred GolderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kamchatska︠i︡a ėkspedi︠t︡si︠i︡a
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Man Behind the Maps
Author: Dale UllandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733875905
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Advances in Cartography and GIScience
Author: Michael P. PetersonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319573365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This book presents a selection of manuscripts submitted to the 2017 International Cartographic Conference held in Washington, DC at the beginning of July and made available at the conference. These manuscripts have been selected by the Scientific Program Committee and represent the wide-range of research that is done in the discipline. It also forms an important international collection representing research from at least 30-40 countries.
Antarctica
Author: David DayPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199861455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Explains the history of Antarctica, focusing on the explorers and sailors drawn to the continent, the scientific investigations that have taken place there, and the geopolitical implications of the landmass.
Literature and Cartography
Author: Anders Engberg-PedersenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262342251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq. Literary authors have frequently called on elements of cartography to ground fictional space, to visualize sites, and to help readers get their bearings in the imaginative world of the text. Today, the convergence of digital mapping and globalization has spurred a cartographic turn in literature. This book gathers leading scholars to consider the relationship of literature and cartography. Generously illustrated with full-color maps and visualizations, it offers the first systematic overview of an emerging approach to the study of literature. The literary map is not merely an illustrative guide but represents a set of relations and tensions that raise questions about representation, fiction, and space. Is literature even mappable? In exploring the cartographic components of literature, the contributors have not only brought literary theory to bear on the map but have also enriched the vocabulary and perspectives of literary studies with cartographic terms. After establishing the theoretical and methodological terrain, they trace important developments in the history of literary cartography, considering topics that include Homer and Joyce, Goethe and the representation of nature, and African cartographies. Finally, they consider cartographic genres that reveal the broader connections between texts and maps, discussing literary map genres in American literature and the coexistence of image and text in early maps. When cartographic aspirations outstripped factual knowledge, mapmakers turned to textual fictions. Contributors Jean-Marc Besse, Bruno Bosteels, Patrick M. Bray, Martin Brückner, Tom Conley, Jörg Dünne, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, John K. Noyes, Ricardo Padrón, Barbara Piatti, Simone Pinet, Clara Rowland, Oliver Simons, Robert Stockhammer, Dominic Thomas, Burkhardt Wolf
The American Cartographer
Author: Writing the Pacific
Author: Jen WebbPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789823660165
Category : Pacific Island fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Writing the Pacific is a new anthology of stories and poems that re-envisions the myths, traditions and lived reality of 'Pacific-ness'."--Book jacket.