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Arkansas Travelers - Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834 (Hardcover)
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Arkansas Travelers - Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834 (Hardcover)
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Award-winning author and teacher Andrew J. Milson takes readers on
anenthralling tour with four travelers as they faced treacherous
rivers,drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food on the Arkansas
frontier. But Milson also cautions thatthe dramatic imagery,
provocative epithets, and frightful anecdotescommon in travel
narratives too often result in distorted geographicalunderstandings
of a place. Milson explains how the language in each ofthese
travelers' published narratives reveals perceptions of places
andlandscapes that can be mapped. When mapped, travelers'
perceptionsreveal not just what the traveler said, but where he
said it. Theresulting maps of these travelers' perceptions of
Arkansasillustrate the places experienced and perceived rather than
simply thespaces they traversed. Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of
Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834, is the first book to capture
the fascinating stories of William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry
Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. A deeper
understanding of the Arkansas past and the early nineteenth century
American frontier is unveiled through maps of their stories and
perceptions.
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