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Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America
THE FIRST POPULAR HISTORY OF THE MAKING OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE The Mason-Dixon line-surely the most famous surveyors' line ever drawn-represents one of the greatest and most difficult scientific achievements of its time. But behind this significant triumph is a thrilling story, one that has thus far eluded both historians and surveyors. In this engrossing narrative, professional surveyor Edwin Danson takes us on a fascinating journey with Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two gifted and exuberant English surveyors, through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America. Vividly describing life in the backwoods and the hardships and dangers of frontier surveying, Drawing the Line discloses for the first time in 250 years many hitherto unknown surveying methods, revealing how Mason and Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed. In accessible, ordinary language, Danson masterfully throws the first clear light on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line. Set in the social and historical context of pre-Revolutionary America, this book is a spellbinding account of one of the great and historic achievements of its time. Advance Praise for Drawing the Line "Drawing the Line combines a fast-moving story, a human drama, and a clear account of surveying in the era of George Washington. An intriguing interaction of politics and science."-CHARLES ROYSTER, Boyd Professor of History, Louisiana State University, and Winner of the Bancroft Prize in History.
Price: $13.86
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Regional Map, Tropical North Queensland: Townsville, Cairns, Cooktown: GPS Surveyed Roads and Tracks, What to See and Do, 24 Hour Fuel, Camping Areas, (Regional Map)
Hema's popular "Townsville Cairns Cooktown" map has received the ultimate facelift, and a new name: "Tropical North Queensland". The new version now contains GPS surveyed roads and tracks, as well as plenty of helpful information on all the things to see and do while you're in the area. The text was compiled in conjunction with Denis O'Byrne, a noted author of travel articles in many national publications, and Rob van Driesum, who spent many years with Lonely Planet. There is still handy information on the region's spectacular Wet Tropics World Heritage Area from the Wet Tropics Management Authority. While still covering the key locations of Townsville, Cairns and Cooktown, the new map's coverage has been expanded slightly to include areas north of Cooktown across to Lakefield National Park. This map is a great companion product to Hema's new "Tropical North Queensland Atlas and Guide". Its features include: GPS surveyed roads and tracks; information on what to see and do; National Parks and Wet Tropics areas; points of interest; camping areas; and 24-hour fuel locations..
Price: $10.40
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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science. .
Price: $19.60
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Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Jamaica Surveyed was first published in Jamaica in 1988 and was not widely available to a worldwide market. This new reprint is now available and brings to the public a representative sample of the enormous collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica. The complete collection, unique in the Caribbean, provides information on over twenty thousand landholdings in Jamaica and is one of the most extensive collections of plantation maps in the Americas. Jamaica Surveyed explores the diversity of agricultural activities in the island and the changing patterns of land use during the period. The familiar sugar estates are included but so are the coffee and pimento plantations and livestock pens. Plantation villages, gardens, grounds and great houses are featured, as well as post-emancipation settlement patterns. What emerges is a fascinating picture of Jamaica as it was in the first phase of large-scale settlement and as it changed over time in response to economic forces. B. W. Higman combines cartographic and documentary evidence to produce an unusual work of historical scholarship of interest to historians, geographers, cartographers, and all students of Caribbean life and culture..
Price: $65.00
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Explorers of the American West: The Story of the Men Who Explored and Surveyed the West, from John C. Fremont to John Wesley Powell, Clarence King, George ... and F. V. Hayden (Exploration & Discovery)
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Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century
From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Pittsburgh Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century. .
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