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Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
- The Diligent Writers of Early America
Engelsk
Bogcover for Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers af Wayne Franklin, 9780226260723
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
266
ISBN-13:
9780226260723
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0226260720
Udg. Dato:
30 okt 1989
Størrelse i cm:
2,3 x 1,5 x 0,2
Oplagsdato:
30 okt 1989
Forfatter(e):

Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers

- The Diligent Writers of Early America
Engelsk
Paperback 1989
Format:

Bog beskrivelse
"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
266
ISBN-13:
9780226260723
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0226260720
Udg. Dato:
30 okt 1989
Størrelse i cm:
2,3 x 1,5 x 0,2
Oplagsdato:
30 okt 1989
Forfatter(e):
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