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American beginnings : exploration, culture, and cartography in the land of Norumbega
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- Creator
- edited by Emerson W. Baker ... [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1994]
- ©1994
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780803245549, 0803245548
- OCLC
- ocm29877406
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-371] and index.
- The indrawing sea : imagination and experience in the search for the Northwest Passage, 1497-1632 / John L. Allen -- The early cartography of Maine in the setting of early European exploration of New England and the Maritimes / David B. Quinn -- On the meaning of a name : "Norumbega" and the representation of North America / Richard D'Abate -- Children of Gluskap : Wabanaki Indians on the eve of the European invasion / Harald E.L. Prins -- Mapping otherness : myth and the study of cultural encounter / Kenneth M. Morrison -- Trade and alliances in the contact period / Bruce J. Bourque and Ruth H. Whitehead -- The exploration of Norumbega : native perspectives / James Axtell -- Political definitions : creating Maine and Acadia / John G. Reid -- "Wee tooke great store of cod-fish" : fishing ships and first settlements on the coast of New England, 1600-1630 / Faith Harrington -- Fort Pentagoet and Castin's habitation : French ventures in Acadian Maine / Alaric Faulkner and Gretchen F. Faulkner -- Mid-seventeenth-century Maine : a world on the edge / Edwin A. Churchill -- The world of Thomas Gorges : life in the province of Maine in the 1640s / Emerson W. Baker -- New England cartography and the Native Americans / J.B. Harley