Mapping America : the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States
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Mapping America : the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States
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- Mapping America : the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States
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- the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States
- Statement of responsibility
- Neal Asbury and Jean-Pierre Isbouts
- Subject
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- Cartography in art
- trueExploration
- trueExplorers
- trueMaps
- Maps
- trueMilitary campaigns
- trueNorth America -- Exploration
- trueNorth America -- History
- trueSouth America -- Exploration
- trueSouth America -- History
- United States -- Maps
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWestern Hemisphere -- Exploration
- trueNavigation
- trueAntique maps
- trueCartographers
- trueCartography
- Cartography -- United States -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The story of the exploration and birth of America is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period. Before photography and television, it was printed and hand-colored maps that brought home the thrill of undiscovered lands and the possibilities of exploration, while guiding armies on all sides through the Indian Wars and the clashes of the American Revolution. Only by looking through the prism of these maps, can we truly understand how and why America developed the way it did. Mapping America illuminates with scene-setting text and more than 150 color images--from the exotic and fanciful maps of Renaissance explorers to the magnificent maps of the Golden Age and the thrilling battle-maps and charts of the American Revolutionary War, in addition to paintings from the masters of eighteenth century art, scores of photographs, and detailed diagrams. In total, this informative and lushly illustrated volume developed by rare maps collector Neal Asbury, host of "Neal Asbury's Made in America," and National Geographic historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts offers a new and immersive look at the ambition, the struggle, and the glory that attended and defined the exploration and making of America."--Jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- IG$
- Dewey number
- 912.73
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- GA405
- LC item number
- .A73 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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