From Maps to Metaphors : The Pacific World of George Vancouver.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- How the Squamish Remember George Vancouver -- Introduction -- 1 James Cook and the European Discovery of Polynesia -- 2 Myth and Reality: The Theoretical Geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver -- 3 Vancouver's Survey Methods and Surveys -- 4 Vancouver's Chronometers -- 5 A Notable Absence: The Lateness and Lameness of Russian Discovery and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1639-1803 -- 6 Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britain's Imperialism of Free Trade -- 7 Seduction before Sovereignty: Spanish Efforts to Manipulate the Natives in Their Claims to the Northwest Coast -- 8 Dangerous Liaisons: Maquinna, Quadra, and Vancouver in Nootka Sound, 1790-5 -- 9 Art and Exploration: The Responses of Northwest Coast Native Artists to Maritime Explorers and Fur Traders -- 10 Kidnapped: Tuki and Huru's Involuntary Visit to Norfolk Island in 1793 -- 11 Banks and Menzies: Evolution of a Journal -- 12 The Intellectual Discovery and Exploration of Polynesia -- 13 The Burden of Terra Australis: Experiences of Real and Imagined Lands -- Appendices: Vancouver's Instruments, Charts, and Drawings -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Contributors.

Now available in paperback for the first time, From Maps to Metaphors, the classic on Vancouver's voyage, illuminates the European and Native experience of the "discovery" of the Pacific coast.

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