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The True Geography of Our Country Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision / Joel Kovarsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kovarsky, Joel.
- Series:
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geography--History--19th century.
- Geography.
- United States--Geography.
- United States.
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Knowledge--Geography.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this illustrated exploration of Jefferson's passion for geography--including his role in planning the route followed and regions explored by Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, as well as other expeditions into the vast expanse of the Louisiana Purchase--Kovarsky reveals how geographical knowledge was essential to the manifold interests of the Sage of Monticello.
- Contents:
- A surveyor's house
- A Virginia geography
- Library of the geography of America
- Jefferson as expedition planner
- A geography of letters
- Foreshadowing manifest destiny
- Geographical miscellanies.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813935591
- 0813935598
- OCLC:
- 880413317
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