Download Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met by Jeffrey Alan Erbig (.PDF)

Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History) by Jeffrey Alan ErbigRequirements: .PDF reader, 27 MBOverview: During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary […]

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Download The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories by Val Ross (.ePUB)

The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories by Val RossRequirements: .ePUB reader, 10.8 MBOverview: Road maps; sailor’s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts – to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made […]

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