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Title

The atlas of North American exploration : from the Norse voyages to the race to the pole / William Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams ; [cartographic director, Malcolm Swanston ; maps created by Isabelle Lewis and Jacqueline Land].

Author

Goetzmann, William H.

Publication

New York : Prentice Hall General Reference, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, Glyndwr.
• Swanston, Malcolm.
• Lewis, Isabelle (Cartographer)
• Land, Jacqueline.

Description

1 atlas (224 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 29 cm

Summary

Atlas of exploration containing over 100 color maps, historical background of each expedition, excerpts from journals, and diaries of early explorers.

Subject

• Explorers > North America > History > Maps
• Discoveries in geography
• Explorers
• Entdeckung
• Geschichte
• Karte
• North America > Discovery and exploration > Maps
• North America
• Nordamerika

Genre/Form

• History.
• Maps.
• Cartes géographiques.

Note

• Cartographers from verso t.p.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 203-209.

Contents

• Preface (p.9) -- America : found, lost, and found again / David Beers Quinn (p.10) -- Part I.A continent on the edge of the world (p.18) -- The Atlantic coasts revealed. The voyage of John Cabot, 1497 (p.20) -- Ponce de Leon to Ayllon, 1513-26 (p.22) -- The voyage of Giovanni da Verrazano, 1524 (p.24) -- The explorations of Jacques Cartier, 1534-36 p0.26) -- The voyages of Frobisher and Davis, 1576-87 (p.28) -- The voyages of Hudson and Baffin, 1610-16 (p.30) -- The Spanish borderlands. The wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-36 (p.32) -- The expedition of Hernando de Soto, 1539-43 (p.34) -- The expedition of Vasquez de Coronado, 1540-42 (p.36) -- Spanish coastal voyages, 1539-43 (p.38) -- Drake, Vizcaino and Onate, 1579-1609 (p.40) -- The Apocryphal voyages, 1592-1640 (p.42).
• Cont.): Part II. The opening of the continent (p.44) -- Rugged and laborious beginnings. Franco-Spanish rivalry, 1562-74 (p.46) -- English colonizing attempts in "Virginia, " 1584-90 (p.48) -- Newfoundland fishery and settlement, 1500-1763 (p.50) -- French settlement in Canada, 1600-08 (p.52) -- Explorations on the Northeast coast, 1602-16 (p.54) -- Captain John Smith and the settling of Virginia, 1607-12 (p.56) -- The quest for the Western sea. The travels of Samuel de Champlain, 1609-16 (p.58) -- The Jesuit missionaries, 1630-70 (p.60) -- The journey of Jolliet and Marquette, 1673 (p.62) -- The journey of LaSalle, 1682 (p.64) -- Trade and exploration in Hudson Bay, 1659-90 (p.66) -- The journeys of Dulhut, Noyon and Kelsey, 1678-92 (p.68).
• Cont.): Part III : Expanding frontiers (p.70) -- To the mountains and beyond. The expansion of the northern colonies, 1630-1700 (p.72) -- Explorers from Virginia, 1670-1750 (p.74) -- Exploration and trade from South Carolina, 1670-1715 (p.76) -- The extension of knowledge in the southern colonies, 1712-30 (p.78) -- Trade and diplomacy in the Ohio Country, 1729-54 (p.80) -- The explorations of Salley, Walker and Gist, 1742-52 (p.82) -- Daniel Boone and the opening of the trans-Appalachian west, 1763-76 (p.84) -- The travels and writings of Jonathan Carver, 1766-78 (p.86) -- The trans-Mississippi west. La Salle in the Gulf of Mexico, 1684-86 (p.88) -- Land and sea searches for La Salle, 1686-90 (p.90) -- European beginnings in Louisiana and Texas, 1698-1722 (p.92) -- Bourgmont's explorations along the Missouri, 1712-24 (p.94) -- The explorations of the Verendryes, 1738-43 (p.96) -- The explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet, 1739-40 (p.98).
• Cont.): Part IV : ocean to ocean (p.100) -- The northern fur trade. The tragic voyage of James Knight, 1719 (p.102) -- French explorations from Lake Supeior to the Saskatchewan, 1731-53 (p.104) -- The voyages of Middleton, Moor and Coats, 1741-49 (p.106) -- The journey of Samuel Hearne, 1771-72 (p.108) -- Fur traders on the Canadian Prairies, 1754-74 (p.110) -- The expansion of the fur trade into Athabasca, 1778-87 (p.112) -The journeys of Alexander Mackenzie, 1789 and 1793 (p.114) -- The inland surveys of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1778-1812 (p.116) -- The explorations of Fraser and Thompson, 1805-11 (p.118) -- The Pacific Northwest. The journeys of Father Kino, 1687-1702 -- The voyages of Bering and the Russians, 1728-68 (p.122) -- Spanish expansion into Upper California, 1769-76 (p.124) -- Spanish interior explorations, 1774-76 (p.126).
• Cont.): Spanish coastal voyages, 1774-79 (p.128) -- The voyage of James Cook, 1778 (p.130) -- Traders and explorers, 1785-94 (p.132) -- Jeffersonian pathfinders. Missouri explorations, 1792-97 (p.134) -- The journey of Lewis and Clark, 1805-06 (p.136) -- Spanish trailblazers in the old southwest, 1786-1808 (p.138) -- Trappers and traders in Louisiana and Texas, 1792-1827 (p.140) -- The Astorians, 1810-12 (p.142) -- The expeditions of Pike and Long, 1806-20 (p.144) -- Fur trade and empires. Expeditions from Lisa's Fort Raymond, 18707-12 (p.146) -- Canadians in the American west, 1818-30 (p.148) -- Trappers and traders in the central Rockies, 1822-26 (p.150) -- The expeditions of Jedediah Smith, 1826-31 (p.152) -- James Ohio Pattie, 1824-32 (p.154) -- The expeditions of Bonneville and Walker, 1832-34 (p.156).
• Cont.): The great reconnaissance. The surveys of Lieutenant Fremont, 1842-48 (p.158) -- Emory's Mexican War reconnaissance, 1846 (p.160) -- The surveys of Simpson and Sitgreaves, 1849-51 (p.162) -- The surveys of Ives and Macomb, 1857-59 (p.164) -- The great railroad surveys, 1853-55 (p.166) -- Artists and scientists of the Great Pacific Railroad surveys (p.168) -- The great surveys. The surveys of King and Wheeler, 1867-73 (p.170) -- The surveys of John Wesley Powell, 1869-78 (p.172) -- Clarence E. Dutton and William H. Holmes, 1874-82 (p.174) -- Explorers of the Yellowstone, 1869-71 (p.176) -- Ferdinand Hayden's survey, 1873-76 (p.178).
• Cont.): The far north (p.180) -- To the top of the continent. The Russians in Alaska, 1790-1863 (p.182) -- The exploration of the Labrador Peninsula, 1816-43 (p.184) -- Searches for the Northwest Passage, 1818-45 (p.186) -- The surveys of Palliser and Hind, 1857-59 (p.188) -- Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage, 1846-1905 (p.190) -- US Alaska and the Yukon gold rush, 1866-98 (p.194) -- Explorations in the Arctic archipelago, 1906-18 (p.196) -- The race to the Pole, 1853-1909 (p.198) -- Bibliography (p.203) -- Index (p.210) -- Acknowlegments (p.223).

ISBN

• 0132971283
• 9780132971287

LCCN

92008573

OCLC

• ocm25628939
• 25628939
• SCSB-1985450

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library