American Philosophical Society
Edition Details: Edited by Carter, Edward C., II
Physical Details: xv + 344 pp.; illus.; notes; index
Description Contents: Allen, John L.: Where we are and how we got there: Surveying the record of exploration studies. Short, John Rennie: A new mode of thinking: Creating a national geography in the early Republic. Nelson, Clifford M.: Toward a reliable geologic map of the United States, 1803-1893. Musselman, Elizabeth Green: Science as a landed activity: Scientifics and seamen aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition. Joyce, Barry Alan: Elisha Kent Kane and the Eskimo of Etah: 1853, 1854, 1855. Allard, Dean C.: A pioneering oceanic exploration: Spencer Baird in the Northeast Atlantic, 1871-1887. Manthorne, Katherine E.: Legible landscapes: Text and image in the expeditionary art of Frederic Church. Tyler, Ron: Illustrated government publications related to the American West, 1843-1863. Rindge, Debora: Science and art meet in the parlor: The role of popular magazine illustration in the pictorial record of the “great surveys”. Fowler, Don D., Wilcox, David R.: From Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos Conference: Changing anthropological agendas in the North American Southwest. Cole, Douglas, Long, Alex: The Boasing anthropological survey tradition: The role of Franz Boas in North American anthropological surveys. Barth, Gunther: Strategies for finding the Northwest Passage: The roles of Alexander Mackenzie and Meriwether Lewis. Furtwangler, Albert: Do or die, but then report and ponder: Palpable and mental adventures in the Lewis and Clark journals. Godfrey, Matthew: Traversing the fortieth parallel: The experiences of Robert Ridgway, teenage ornithologist. Hume, Brad D.: The romantic and the techical in early 19th-century American exploration. Worster, Donald: The second Colorado River expedition: John Wesley Powell, Mormonism and the environment.
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