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Article: SURVEYING THE RECORD: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930.(Review)
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- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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SURVEYING THE RECORD: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by EDWARD C. CARTER II. xv and 344 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 231. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 0871692317.
Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 is a delightful collection of historical essays in which both "scientific" and "exploration" are loosely interpreted. The contributors are an eclectic mix of historians, geographers, anthropologists, and scholars from other disciplines, all of whom participated in a 1997 conference at the American Philosophical ...