Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 231)

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 peo...