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GEOGRAPHY / GENERAL

ABC-CLIO SERIES
Mapping the World through Primary Documents

Explorers of the Explorers of the
Maritime Pacific American West

Northwest Mapping the World through
Mapping the World through Primary Documents
Primary Documents JAY H. BUCKLEY
AND JEFFERY D. NOKES
WILLIAM L. LANG
AND JAMES V. WALKER

Mapping the World through Primary
Documents provides students with
firsthand accounts and interpretations
of geography of the past: the land over
which explorers trekked, the people they ABC-CLIO
met and cultures to which they were March 2016, 321pp, 8 1/2x11
exposed, the animals they discovered, and ABC-CLIO Print: 978-1-61069-731-6
their other experiences in new lands. This May 2016, 301pp, 8 1/2x11 $100.00, £77.00, €91.00
series supports Common Core Standards Print: 978-1-61069-925-9 eBook: 978-1-61069-732-3
$108.00, £84.00, €99.00
relating to primary source analysis as well eBook: 978-1-61069-926-6
as National Geography Standards. Students “ This collection of written
in geography, American history, and social documentation and analysis
studies classes will find the series extremely “ This book fills a void in the will be extremely useful for
useful. literature. . . . Recommended. ” scholars, researchers, and
—Choice, January 4, 2017 historians seeking primary
source information on United
Covering the adventures of coastal States westward exploration.
and ocean explorers who made key Highly recommended. ”
discoveries and landmark observations —ARBA, August 31, 2016
from northern California up the
coastline to Alaska during the mid-1700s With original primary source
to the early 1800s, this anthology of documents, this anthology brings
primary source journal entries, book readers into the vast unknown 19th-
excerpts, maps, and drawings enables century American West—through the
readers to “discover” the Northwest eyes of the explorers who saw it for the
Coast for themselves. first time.

WILLIAM L. LANG is professor JAY H. BUCKLEY, PhD, is associate
emeritus of history at Portland State professor of history at Brigham Young
University and founding editor of The University, Provo, UT.
Oregon Encyclopedia. JEFFERY D. NOKES, PhD, is associate
JAMES V. WALKER is a retired professor of history at Brigham Young
physician and map collector living in University, Provo, UT.
Eugene, OR.
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