Mapping the Frontier - A Memoir of Discovery From Coastal Maine to the Alaskan Rim

Informationen zum Autor Rufus Harvey Sargent was born in Sedgewick, Maine, in 1875, but his life and workwith the U.S. Geological Survey took him far from his home town on the coast. He explored and mapped some of the most remote parts of the world, including sections of Alaska and China that no one had ever set foot in. He completed the first aerial survey of Alaska in 1925-26, and in 1947 the Department of the Interior awarded Sargent its Medal for Distinguished Service. He died in 1951, in Washington, D.C. Klappentext Author R. Harvey Sargent of Sedgwick, ME, led the U. S. Geological Survey in Alaska, for 35 years. He also created the first modern maps of China, trekking across the country's interior during the treacherous post-Boxer Rebellion days in 1903-04. Recreating his story from maps, photographs, and his own copious journal entries, Mapping the Frontier is a great addition to the literature of discovery and adventure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Blue Hill Public LibraryPrologue by Robert M. Sargent1          Childhood in Sedgwick, 1875¿1889 2          A Passion for Exploration, 1890¿18953          The National Zoo, Washington, D.C., 1895¿18984          Joining the Survey: South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, 1898¿19015          First Chief of Party: Glacier National Park, Montana, 1901¿19036          The China Expedition, 1903¿19047          Mapping and Marriage: Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, 1904¿19068          Distant Journeys: Alaska, Mexico, 1906¿19079          Alaskan Summers, Washington Winters, 1907¿190910        Topographer in Charge of the Alaskan Branch: Matanuska Valley and Kenai Peninsula, 1908¿191111        Alaskäs Matanuska Valley and Iliamna Bay, 1913¿1914Epilogue, 1915¿1951Alaska TodayGlossary & BibliographyINDEX

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• Authors: Rufus Harvey Sargent
• Assisted by: Jan Cigliano Hartman (Editor), Hartman Jan Cigliano (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2015
• EAN: 9781608934607
• ISBN: 978-1-60893-460-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Alaska, Memoirs, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, History of the Americas, Geographical discovery and exploration, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs