Measuring America

Informationen zum Autor Andro Linklater has been a writer for twenty years. He is the author of The Black Watch (with his father, Eric Linklater); Charlotte Despard: A Life; Compton Mackenzie: A Life (winner of the Scottish Arts Council Biography of the Year Award); Wild People: Travels with Borneo’s Head Hunters; and The Code of Love (Weidenfeld 2000). Narrative of the largest land survey in history, begun in 1785. Combines history and popular science. Zusammenfassung The epic story of how the gigantic land of America acquired its unique shape across 3000 miles of territory, and how the largest land survey in history paved the way both for a colossal sale of property and for the embedding of democracy and the spirit of independence in the psyche of Americans.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andro Linklater
• Verlag: Harper Collins Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.06.2003
• EAN: 9780007108886
• ISBN: 978-0-00-710888-6
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Cartography, map-making & projections, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Cartography, map-making and projections, C 1700 To C 1800, Thomas Jefferson;Edmund Gunter;land survey;metrication