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

Informationen zum Autor By Rufus Harvey Sargent - Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman Klappentext Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential. Maine native R. Harvey Sargent led the U. S. Geological Survey in Alaska for over three decades, 1901-1936, charting the vast expanses of this remarkably beautiful and treacherous land. A pioneer of modern mapping, Sargent introduced 20th-century “firsts”: photogrammetry and aerial surveys in Alaska, and the first professional surveys of China’s mountainous interior.Mapping the Frontier: A Memoir of Discovery from Coastal Maine to the Alaskan Rim publishes for the first time Harvey Sargent’s diary of his explorations in the world’s outer edges, from China to Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Alaska. He was the son of a sea captain, born with exploration and adventure in his veins. Grounded in the foundations of his childhood home of Sedgwick, Maine, to his family residence for a half-century with USGS in Washington, D. C., Sargent’s lively narrative is beautifully illustrated with period maps and photographs. The reader will experience the breathtaking majesty of the Grand Canyon; the deadly harsh winters of Utah’s dessert; misty fjords and dramatic icebergs of Glacier Bay National Park; and Sargent’s discovery of Alaska’s Aniakshak crater, today the country’s most remote National Monument and Preserve. 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, 1907–190910Topographer in Charge of theAlaskan Branch: Matanuska Valley and Kenai Peninsula, 1908–191111Alaska’s Matanuska Valley and Iliamna Bay, 1913–1914Epilogue, 1915–1951Alaska TodayGlossary & BibliographyINDEX...

Product details

• 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; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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