Making History, Drawing Territory
Subtitle: British Mapping in India, c. 1756-1905
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 8, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780195665468
First sentence: In a presidential address before the Royal Society in 1791, Sir Joseph Banks referred to A Bengal Atlas, which had been published a decade earlier by his friend James Rennell, a surveyor and geographer for the East India Company.