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Mapmaker's Eye : David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau by Jack Nisbet (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington STATE University Press
ISBN-100874222850
ISBN-139780874222852
eBay Product ID (ePID)47020761
Product Key Features
Book TitleMapmaker's Eye : David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicCultural Heritage, United States / 19th Century, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Adventurers & Explorers, Canada / Western Provinces (Ab, BC), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Regional, North America, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJack Nisbet
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-017116
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal917.1204/3
Table Of ContentACKNOWLEDGMENTS A Note on the Artists Introduction Part One: A Mathematical Boy Part Two: Lure of the Columbia Part Three: Across the Divide Part Four: Among the Kootenai and Salish Part Five: A Critical Situation Part Six: A Voyage Down the Columbia Part Seven: Legacy Part Eight: Appendices Endnotes Illustration Credits Bibliography Index
SynopsisBetween 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the entire 1,250-mile course of the Columbia River. In succeeding years he distilled his mathematical notations from dozens of journal notebooks into the first accurate maps of a vast portion of the northwest quadrant of North America. The writings in those same journals reveal a complex man who was headstrong, curious, and resourceful in ways that reflected both his London education and his fur trade apprenticeship on the Canadian Shield. In The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau , Jack Nisbet utilizes fresh research to convey how Thompson experienced the full sweep of human and natural history etched across the Columbia drainage. He places Thompson's movements within the larger contexts of the European Enlightenment, the British fur trade economy, and American expansion as represented by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Nisbet courses through journal notebooks to assemble and comment on the explorer's bird and mammal lists, his surprisingly detailed Salish vocabulary, the barrel organ music he and his crew listened to, and the woodworking techniques they used to keep themselves under shelter or on the move. Visual elements bring Thompson's written daybooks to life. Watercolor landscapes and tribal portraits drawn by the first artists to travel along his trade routes illuminate what the explorer actually saw. Tribal and fur trade artifacts reveal intimate details of two cultures at the moment of contact. The Mapmaker's Eye also depicts the surveying instruments that Thompson utilized, and displays the series of remarkable maps that grew out of his patient, persistent years of work. In addition, Nisbet taps into oral memories kept by the Kootenai and Salish bands who guided the agent and his party along their way.
LC Classification NumberF1060.7.T48N567 2005
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