On The Edge : Mapping North America's Coasts
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press (2012), New York, 2012
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Ex-library. Library labels, stamps and markings. Dust-jacket in plastic cover, taped to boards and endpapers.; viii, [4], 251, [1 (blank)] pages. Grey boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 152mm. Illustrated. "In 'On the Edge,' Roger McCoy tells the captivating--and often harrowing--story of the 400 year effort to map North America's Coasts. Much of the book is based on the narratives of mariners who sought a passage through the continent to Asia and produced maps as a byproduct of their journeys. These courageous explorers had to rely on the most rudimentary mapping tools and to contend with unimaginably harsh conditions: ship-crushing ice floes; the threat of frostbite, scurvy, and starvation; gold fever and mutiny; ice that could lock them in for months on end; and, inevitably, the failure to find the elusive Northwest passage. Telling the story from the explorers' perspective, McCoy allows readers to see how maps of their voyages were made and why they were so full of errors, as well as how they gradually acquired greater accuracy, especially after the longitude problem was solved. 'On the Edge' tracks the dramatic voyages of John Cabot, John Davis, Captain Cook, Henry Hudson, Martin Frobisher, John Franklin (who nearly starved to death and become known in England as "the man who ate his boots"), and others, concluding with Robert Peary, Otto Sverdrup, and Vihjalmur Steffanson in the early twentieth century.".…
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- Title
- On The Edge : Mapping North America's Coasts
- Author
- McCoy, Roger M.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (2012), New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Good+
- Dust jacket
- Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199744041
- ISBN 13
- 9780199744046
- Edition
- First Edition.
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