Mapping Travelers' Cultural and Environmental Perceptions: Thomas Nuttall and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in Arkansas, 1818-1819.
Travel narratives communicate a wealth of geographical information about the physical and cultural landscapes of the past, but cartographic representation of travelers' perceptions is challenging. When a traveler's journey is represented as a line on a map, the depth of the traveler's geographical o...
| Publicado en: | Historical Geography Vol. 45; pp. 172 - 188 |
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Historical Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers
2017
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