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Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment - Hardcover

Mitchell, Barbara

 
9780889775039: Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0889775036 ISBN 13: 9780889775039
Verlag: University of Regina Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides and his Cree wife, Turnor travelled 15,000 miles by canoe and foot between 1778 and 1792 to produce ten maps, culminating in his magnum opus, a map that was the foundation of all northern geographic knowledge at that time.



Barbara Mitchell's biography brings to life the man who taught David Thompson and Peter Fidler how to survey. In her search for Turnor's story, Mitchell discovers her own Cree-Orkney ancestry and that of thousands of others who are descendents of Turnor and his Cree wife.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara Mitchell is co-author of a two-volume biography of W.O. Mitchell, Beginnings to Who Has Seen the Wind and The Years of Fame. She lives in Otonabee, Ontario.

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Verlag
University of Regina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0889775036
ISBN 13 
9780889775039
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Anzahl der Seiten
327
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