Mapping a continent : historical atlas of North America, 1492-1814
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Mapping a continent : historical atlas of North America, 1492-1814
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The work Mapping a continent : historical atlas of North America, 1492-1814 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Still Image, Cartography, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Maps.
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- Mapping a continent : historical atlas of North America, 1492-1814
- Title remainder
- historical atlas of North America, 1492-1814
- Statement of responsibility
- Raymonde Litalien, Jean-François Palomino, Denis Vaugeois ; translated by Käthe Roth
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- eng
- Summary
- In March 1493, Christopher Columbus returned from a long voyage to the west, convinced he had reached India. In truth, an immense continent, then absent from any map, had blocked his path. A formidable barrier separating Europe from Asia, North America became a coveted land, attracting sailors, missionaries, trappers, soldiers and scientists. For three centuries, motivated by the goal of finding a nautical route to the Pacific Ocean and from there the Orient, European explorers surveyed and mapped the large territory, exploring every body of water, from the tiniest bays to the greatest rivers, and pushing deeper into the interior. Three hundred years almost to the day after Columbus's first voyage, Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean "from Canada, by land, 22 July 1793." In 1805, spurred on by Jefferson, the Lewis and Clark expedition crossed the continent from the Missouri-Mississippi delta to where the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean. The continent's measure had been taken. - Publisher
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- YOU
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- atlas
- Dewey number
- 911/.7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- G1106.S1
- LC item number
- L5 2007
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