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Cartographies of travel and navigation [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Akerman. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - ix, 372 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). - The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography . - Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Maps.
Navigation.
Map reading.
Navigation--United States.
Map reading--United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GA108 / .C35 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 629.04/5