The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey.
At the heart of the story lie the remarkable maps and the men who
made them - the commanding and highly professional Samuel Holland,
Surveyor-General in the North, and the brilliant but mercurial
William Gerard De Brahm, Surveyor-General in the South. Battling
both physical and political obstacles, Holland and De Brahm sought
to establish their place in the firmament of the British hierarchy.
Yet the reality in which they had to operate was largely controlled
from afar, by Crown administrators in London and the colonies and
by wealthy speculators, whose approval or opposition could make or
break the best laid plans as they sought to use the Survey for
their own ends.
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