Cartographies of travel and navigation

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Akerman, James R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / James R. Akerman
  • Milieus of mobility : itineraries, route maps and road maps / Catherine Delano-Smith
  • Surveying the seas : establishing the sea routes to the East Indies / Andrew S. Cook
  • Mapping a transcontinental nation : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American rail travel cartography / Jerry Musich
  • Twentieth-century American road maps and the making of a national motorized space / James R. Akerman
  • "Up in the air in more ways than one" : the emergence of aeronautical charts in the United States / Ralph E. Ehrenberg
  • Maps on wheels : the evolution of automobile navigation / Robert L. French.