A Country So Interesting : The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping, 1670-1870 Volume 2 Paperback / softback
by Richard I. Ruggles
Part of the Rupert's Land Record Society Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
In A Country So Interesting Richard Ruggles describes and analyses the mapping activities of more than 160 Company servants and surveyors as well as the contributions of more than 50 Indians and Inuit who drew sketches and provided original configurations.
Also included are annotated catalogues of all the maps known to have been produced by the Hudson's Bay Company and sixty-six reproductions of the most important maps and sketches. The Hudson's Bay Company was responsible for the largest collection in North America of manuscript charts and maps related to the fur trade and Ruggles has produced the first and most comprehensive study of this unique and rich body of material.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 66 screened halftone plates
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2011
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- ISBN:9780773538856
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 66 screened halftone plates
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780773538856
