Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin
Subtitle: A Cartographic History
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: April 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780874176179
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); Geography; United States - State & Local - West; Great Basin Region; Earth Sciences - Geography; Science; Reference; Science/Mathematics; Western & Pacific Coast states; History; Atlases - General; Discovery and exploration; Cartography; Great Basin
First sentence: TO WAYFARERS IN THE EARLY twenty-first century, the Great Basin one of those seemingly empty spaces that once punished the traveler but are now easily crossed unless one makes a mistake or miscalculation.