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9781574271386
In competition for a mostly unclaimed continent, Spanish, English, Dutch, French and Portuguese explorers guarded their maps as state secrets, as knowledge of the landscape was the key to acquisition. Though technically innacurate and incomplete, the early maps reveal active imaginations.University of Virginia Staff is the author of 'Lewis and Clark The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814' with ISBN 9781574271386 and ISBN 1574271385.
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