Uncharted waters : the explorations of José Narváez (1768-1840) / Jim McDowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDowell, Jim, 1934- author.

Contributor:

Canadian Electronic Library (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narváez, José, 1768?-.

Narváez, José.

Explorers--Spain--Biography.

Explorers.

Pacific Coast (North America)--Discovery and exploration.

Pacific Coast (North America).

Pacific Coast (B.C.)--Discovery and exploration.

Pacific Coast (B.C.).

Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)--Discovery and exploration.

Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.).

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver [British Columbia] : Ronsdale Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Jim McDowell's new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada's Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to investigate a Russian fur-trading outpost in the Gulf of Alaska in 1788. The following year he became the first Spaniard to reconnoitre Juan de Fuca Strait. In 1791, he charted the interiors of three large inlets on Vancouver Island's West Coast, discovered a vast inland sea to the east (today's Salish Sea), mapped the entire gulf, made first contact with Aboriginal peoples in the area, and found the site of what became western Canada's largest city -- Vancouver, British Columbia. Narváez also undertook diplomatic missions around the Pacific Ocean, charted the waters of the Philippines, and engaged extensively in the political upheaval that transformed New Spain into Mexico between 1796 and his death in 1840."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION An Overlooked Explorer

PART I Spain Strives to Control the Pacific Northwest Coast. CHAPTER 1: A Young Mariner's Journey from Cadiz to New Spain

CHAPTER 2: Investigating the Russian Threat, 1788

CHAPTER 3: Conflict at Nootka Sound 1789-1790

PART II The Key Expedition. CHAPTER 4: In Quest of the Northwest Passage, 1791

CHAPTER 5: Surveying "Puerto Narváez," May 1791

CHAPTER 6: Charting "Entrada de Nitinat,"؛June 1791

CHAPTER 7: Reconnaissance of an Unknown Archipelago, May-June 1791

CHAPTER 8: Exploration of the Gran Canal's East Shore, July 1791

CHAPTER 9: Exploration of the Gran Canal's West Shore, July 1791

CHAPTER 10: The Super-Explorers Arrived

PART III New Spain Changes Course. CHAPTER 11: Spanish Influence Wanes

CHAPTER 12: The Revolt of 1810 in New Spain

CHAPTER 13: Narváez Adapts to Political Change in Mexico

APPENDIX A: The Local Geographic Legacy of Narváez's Expedition of 1791

APPENDIX B: Narváez's Missing Journal of 1790-1791

APPENDIX C: The Three Identities of an Historic Schooner (1788&-1796)

APPENDIX D: Dimensions of the Santa Saturnina

APPENDIX E: Manifest of the Santa Saturnina

APPENDIX F: A Brief History of the San Carlos One and Two

APPENDIX G: Lineage of José María Narváez.

Notes:

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-55380-436-8

OCLC:

939262132