From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver

by Robin Fisher, Hugh Johnston, Hugh J. M. Johnston

During the summers of 1792-4 George Vancouver and the crew of the British naval ships Discovery and Chatham mapped the northwest coast of North America from Baja California to Alaska. Vancouver's voyage was the last, and the longest, of the great Pacific voyages of the late eighteenth century. Taking the art and technique of distant voyaging to a new level, Vancouver eliminated the possibility of a northwest passage, and his remarkably precise surveys...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077480470X
• ISBN13: 9780774804707
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"