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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the
American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street
Journal)-the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous
pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community
based on ideals that would define our country. As part of the
Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United
States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the
immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the
Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh
Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans
of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement.
Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable
conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most
importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of
pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under
the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam.
They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio
River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters:
Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a
carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a
prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families
created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such
frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or
bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a
contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native
people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle
deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and
all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key
figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose
ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This
is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with
David McCullough's signature narrative energy.
From longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist
Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious
history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have
tried and failed to unlock its secrets. An investigation into the
"curse" of Oak Island, where rumors of buried riches have beguiled
treasure hunters over the past two centuries. In 1795, a teenager
discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak
Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried
treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing
layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they
reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and
made further digging impossible. Since then the mystery of Oak
Island's "Money Pit" has enthralled generations of treasure
hunters, including a Boston insurance salesman whose obsession
ruined him; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and film star Errol
Flynn. Perplexing discoveries have ignited explorers' imaginations:
a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining from a
man-made beach; a torn scrap of parchment; stone markers forming a
huge cross. Swaths of the island were bulldozed looking for
answers; excavation attempts have claimed two lives. Theories
abound as to what's hidden on Oak Island-pirates' treasure, Marie
Antoinette's lost jewels, the Holy Grail, proof that Sir Francis
Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays-yet to this day,
the Money Pit remains an enigma. The Curse of Oak Island is a
fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and
the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to
financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of
answers. And as Michigan brothers Marty and Rick Lagina become the
latest to attempt to solve the mystery, as documented on the
History Channel's television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan
takes readers along to follow their quest firsthand.
From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features
highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection
together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from
twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by a
narrative revealing the story behind how it came to be made and the
significance of what it shows. The chronological arrangement
highlights how cartography has evolved over the centuries and how
it reflects political and social change. Showcasing a
twelfth-century Arabic map of the Mediterranean, highly decorated
portolan charts, military maps, trade maps, a Siberian sealskin
map, maps of heaven and hell, C.S. Lewis's map of Narnia, J.R.R.
Tolkien's cosmology of Middle-earth and Grayson Perry's tapestry
map, this book is a treasure-trove of cartographical delights
spanning over a thousand years.
For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has
charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing
together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation,
dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the
Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking
survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic
format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history.
The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously
unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information
systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the
skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile
communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an
important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge,
and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all
levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively,
while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on
science, technology, and society - and vice versa. The lavishly
produced volume includes more than five hundred articles
accompanied by more than a thousand images, most in full color.
Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research,
often based on their own participation in the developments they
describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography.
Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this
definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who
study and love maps.
Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a
small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the
world's largest and most dynamic cities. This beautifully
illustrated book charts that growth and the city's transformation
through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British
Library's Map Library. These visual records range from sweeping
images of the entire city to nuanced studies of its elements and
neighborhoods. Including official documents, individual endeavors,
hand-drawn renditions, and technologically advanced replicas, these
maps represent a variety of perspectives. Utilitarian maps show the
city as it is and serve to elucidate its inner workings, while
carefully wrought plans show the city as it was envisioned--whether
those plans were executed or not. The maps and panoramas collected
here are more than topographical records. They all convey unique
insight into the concerns, assumptions, ambitions, and prejudices
of Londoners at the time the maps were created. In addition to
offering readers a tour of London past and present, this book
reveals the inside story of the creation, growth, and change of one
of the world's greatest cities.
The OS Historical Map series comprises of Ancient Britain and Roman
Britain. The Roman Britain Map provides the ideal overview of
nearly 400 yearsof history, during which Britain was a part of the
Roman Empire. This map covers the whole of Great Britain and is
printed back to back as North and South sheets. It includes a list
of key dates, events and archaeological evidence. The OS Historical
Map of Roman Britain provides the means to appreciate and visit the
rich and extensive archaeological remains from this period.
Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to
communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 70 maps which
have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about
different political, commercial and social aspects of Scotland's
largest city. The maps featured provide fascinating insights into
topics such as: the development of the Clyde and its shipbuilding
industry, the villages which were gradually subsumed into the city,
how the city was policed, what lies underneath the city streets,
the growth of Glasgow during the Industrial Revolution, the
development of transport, the city's green spaces, the health of
Glasgow, Glasgow as a tourist destination, the city as a wartime
target, and its regeneration in the 1980s as the host city of one
of the UK's five National Garden Festivals. Together, they present
a fascinating insight into how Glasgow has changed and developed
over the last 500 years, and will appeal to all those with an
interest in Glasgow and Scottish history, as well as those
interested in urban history, architectural history, town planning
and the history of maps.
Discover Scotland with this authoritative guide to clans, tartans,
and their origins. These popular maps are highly detailed, showing
hundreds of arms, official insignia, crests, and tartans of the
Scottish clans. This beautifully illustrated map is both decorative
and informative. This map includes: Two double-sided, full-colour
maps of Scotland More than 170 arms, the official insignia of clan
chiefs, crest badges, and the locations of their ancient
territories around the time of King James VI More than 240 tartans
with corresponding clan/ family names, alphabetically arranged for
easy look-up Additional information about the history of the clans
and their tartans The map is ideal for those those with an interest
in Scottish heraldry, clans and family history. Other titles in the
series include: * Castles Map of Scotland (99780007508532) *
Whiskey Map of Scotland (9780008368319)
Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the
adventure that shaped the world . . . 'A thrilling story of
courage, survival and science. It's an extraordinary, visceral and
vivid read' Geographical Magazine ________ Three hundred years ago
no one knew the true shape of the world. It wasn't a sphere - but
did it bulge at the equator or was it pointed at the poles? Until
we found out no map could ever be truly accurate. So a team of
scientists was sent to South America - to measure one full degree
of latitude. But South America was a land of erupting volcanoes,
sodden rainforests, earthquakes, deadly diseases, tropical storms
and violent unrest. And the misfit scientists had an unfortunate
tendency to squander funds, fight duels, stumble into mutinies or
die horribly. The tale of their ten-year odyssey of exploration,
discovery, flirtations with failure and ultimate triumph becomes in
Nicholas Crane's hands the greatest scientific adventure story ever
told. ________ 'Pace, rigour and attention to enticing detail . . .
Crane has a rare knack for showing people things without them
having to get out of their chair' Joe Smith, director of The Royal
Geographic society
This volume discusses gardens as designed landscapes of mediation
between nature and culture, embodying different levels of human
control over wilderness, defining specific rules for this
confrontation and staging different forms of human dominance. The
contributing authors focus on ways of rethinking the garden and its
role in contemporary society, using it as a crossover platform
between nature, science and technology. Drawing upon their diverse
fields of research, including History of Science and Technology,
Environmental Studies, Gardens and Landscape Studies, Urban
Studies, and Visual and Artistic Studies, the authors unveil
various entanglements woven in the past between nature and culture,
and probe the potential of alternative epistemologies to escape the
predicament of fatalistic dystopias that often revolve around the
Anthropocene debate. This book will be of great interest to those
studying environmental and landscape history, the history of
science and technology, historical geography, and the environmental
humanities.
In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a
transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement. Its
traditions, often hastily dismissed, are increasingly revealing
insights which inspire present-day scholarship in geography. This
book provides a historical geography of anarchism, analysing the
places and spatiality of historical anarchist movements, key
thinkers, and the present scientific challenges of the geographical
anarchist traditions. This volume offers rich and detailed insights
into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geographies with
contributions from international leading experts. It also explores
the historical geographies of anarchism by examining their
expressions in a series of distinct geographical contexts and their
development over time. Contributions examine the changes that the
anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their space and time,
and the way this spirit continues to animate the anarchist
geographies of our own, perhaps often in unpredictable ways. There
is also an examination of contemporary expressions of anarchist
geographical thought in the fields of social movements,
environmental struggles, post-statist geographies, indigenous
thinking and situated cosmopolitanisms. This is valuable reading
for students and researchers interested in historical geography,
political geography, social movements and anarchism.
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers,
explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to
people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary
tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and
artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new
journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. Drawing on the
Bodleian Library's outstanding map collection and covering almost a
thousand years, 'Talking Maps' takes a new approach to map-making
by showing how maps and stories have always been intimately
entwined. Including such rare treasures as a unique map of the
Mediterranean from the eleventh-century Arabic 'Book of
Curiosities', al-Sharif al-Idrisi's twelfth-century world map, C.S.
Lewis's map of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's cosmology of Middle-earth
and Grayson Perry's twenty-first-century tapestry map, this
fascinating book analyses maps as objects that enable us to cross
sea and land; as windows into alternative and imaginary worlds; as
guides to reaching the afterlife; as tools to manage cities,
nations, even empires; as images of environmental change; and as
digitized visions of the global future. By telling the stories
behind the artefacts and those generated by them, 'Talking Maps'
reveals how each map is not just a tool for navigation but also a
worldly proposal that helps us to understand who we are by
describing where we are.
A guide to exploring 365 of Scotland's most scenic, wildlife-rich
and historically significant woodlands. From the precious fragments
of Caledonian pine forest to lesser-known wildwoods and urban
copses, Scottish woodlands offer places of sanctuary, both for
wildlife and for people. In this practical guide, Gabriel Hemery
brings together the beauty, purpose, history, wildlife and
ownership of some of the most extraordinary woodland sites in the
country, from the largest (the Forest of Ae, which covers more than
10,000 hectares) to the smallest (Halligarth in the Shetland
Islands, measuring less than a third of a hectare), and everything
in-between. Some woods are notable for having the tallest or rarest
trees, others are the best places in the country for spotting
ospreys or red squirrels, or even marine mammals; some are known as
the best places to explore preserved archaeological features,
discovering hidden histories or simply enjoying spectacular
scenery. Divided into 14 regions, each beginning with a summary of
the region's woodland heritage, this guide features 365 sites,
including details of ownership, designation, area, forest type, how
to access it (including grid reference, post code and 'what3words'
reference), alongside a description of the site's key features.
Featuring more than 200 stunning photographs of Scotland's plants,
animals and spectacular landscapes and expert region maps to help
guide you to your nearest forest site, this is an essential book
for adventurers, ramblers and wildlife enthusiasts. Wherever you
may be in Scotland, with this guide you will never be far from a
fascinating forest site!
This book, first published in 1954 with this revised edition
published in 1972, was recognised as the standard work on
Indo-Pakistani geography. Part 1 focuses on climate and soils; Part
2 provides a synopsis of the social complexities of the
sub-continent; Part 3 examines planning and development; Part 4 is
devoted to detailed regional description, both urban and rural.
In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English
voyage up River Gambra, during which a party, led by himself,
penetrated to a point some 460 miles up-river. The purpose of the
voyage was to make contact with the gold trade of the West African
interior, but in this there was little success. However, Jobson's
account of the river, its commerce, natural history, peoples,
religions and polities, was the earliest to appear in print, in
this fullness of detail, in any language. It was also the earliest
detailed account of any part of Black Africa, by an Englishman.
Jobson's account, almost entirely original, has special interest in
its author's observations on the African scene, particularly those
on the African peoples and individuals encountered. Jobson
discusses such topics as local agriculture and trade, the role of
Islam, political culture, and the position of women. Despite the
limits of his experience, his observations are seemingly accurate
and generally perceptive, as well as being (perhaps unexpectedly)
often tolerant and even sympathetic.
The growing importance of Central and Inner Asia and the Silk Road
is much discussed at present. This book compares the nature of
present day networks in these regions with the patterns of similar
connections which existed at the time of the Mongol Empire in the
thirteenth century and its successor states. It considers
settlement patterns, technology and technology transfer, trade,
political arrangements, the role of religion and the impact of the
powerful states which border the region. Overall, the book
demonstrates that the Mongol Empire anticipated many of the
networks and connections which exist in the region at present.
WINNER, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated
Travel Book of the Year. HIGHLY COMMENDED, British Cartographic
Society Awards 2022. From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the
superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to
Springfield in The Simpsons, this is a wondrous atlas of imagined
places around the world. Locations from film, tv, literature,
myths, comics and video games are plotted in a series of beautiful
vintage-looking maps. The maps feature fictional buildings, towns,
cities and countries plus mountains and rivers, oceans and seas.
Ever wondered where the Bates Motel was based? Or Bedford Falls in
It's a Wonderful Life? The authors have taken years to research the
likely geography of thousands of popular culture locations that
have become almost real to us. Sometimes these are easy to work
out, but other times a bit of detective work is needed and the
authors have been those detectives. By looking at the maps, you'll
find that the revolution at Animal Farm happened next to Winnie the
Pooh's home. Each location has an an extended index entry plus
coordinates so you can find it on the maps. Illuminating essays
accompanying the maps give a great insight into the stories behind
the imaginary places, from Harry Potter's wizardry to Stone Age
Bedrock in the Flintstones. A stunning map collection of invented
geography and topography drawn from the world's imagination.
Fascinating and beautiful, this is an essential book for any
popular culture fan and map enthusiast.
A peril-packed, crocodile-crammed, fun-filled adventure through
ancient Egypt! Being whisked back to 1300 BC certainly wasn't on
Henry's to-do list. Can he make his way through a new school, odd
sports, unexpected friends and deadly pets, Egyptian style? And
will he ever find his way back to the present day? Laugh-out-loud
pictures on every page, a riotously funny story Cool hieroglyphics
to crack from talented author-illustrator Thiago de Moraes From the
creator of Myth Atlas and History Atlas
In the last few years, anarchism has been rediscovered as a
transnational, cosmopolitan and multifaceted movement. Its
traditions, often hastily dismissed, are increasingly revealing
insights which inspire present-day scholarship in geography. This
book provides a historical geography of anarchism, analysing the
places and spatiality of historical anarchist movements, key
thinkers, and the present scientific challenges of the geographical
anarchist traditions. This volume offers rich and detailed insights
into the lesser-known worlds of anarchist geographies with
contributions from international leading experts. It also explores
the historical geographies of anarchism by examining their
expressions in a series of distinct geographical contexts and their
development over time. Contributions examine the changes that the
anarchist movement(s) sought to bring out in their space and time,
and the way this spirit continues to animate the anarchist
geographies of our own, perhaps often in unpredictable ways. There
is also an examination of contemporary expressions of anarchist
geographical thought in the fields of social movements,
environmental struggles, post-statist geographies, indigenous
thinking and situated cosmopolitanisms. This is valuable reading
for students and researchers interested in historical geography,
political geography, social movements and anarchism.
This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary,
theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War
through the lens of historical and cultural geography. Reflecting
the centennial interest in the conflict, the collection explores
the relationships between warfare and space, and pays particular
attention to how commemoration is connected to spatial elements of
national identity, and processes of heritage and belonging.
Venturing beyond military history and memory studies, contributors
explore conceptual contributions of geography to analyse the First
World War, as well as reflecting upon the imperative for an
academic discussion on the War's centenary. This book explores the
War's impact in more unexpected theatres, blurring the boundary
between home and fighting fronts, investigating the experiences of
the war amongst civilians and often overlooked combatants. It also
critically examines the politics of hindsight in the post-war
period, and offers an historical geographical account of how the
First World War has been memorialised within 'official' spaces, in
addition to those overlooked and often undervalued 'alternative
spaces' of commemoration. This innovative and timely text will be
key reading for students and scholars of the First World War, and
more broadly in historical and cultural geography, social and
cultural history, European history, Heritage Studies, military
history and memory studies.
This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who
worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal
stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine
administration representative of a wider masculine administrative
network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire.
Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities,
the gender relations in those societies and relations between the
British Protectorate administration and Ugandan Christian women are
all explored in detail. The analysis is offset by the author's
experience of working in Uganda at the close of British
Protectorate status in the 1960s, employed by the Uganda Government
Education Department in a school founded by the Uganda Mission.
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