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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Emerson W Baker; et al |
| ISBN: | 0803245548 9780803245549 |
| OCLC Number: | 29877406 |
| Description: | xxxiv, 388 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | The indrawing sea : imagination and experience in the search for the Northwest Passage, 1497-1632 / John L. Allen -- The early cartography of Maine in the setting of early European exploration of New England and the Maritimes / David B. Quinn -- On the meaning of a name : "Norumbega" and the representation of North America / Richard D'Abate -- Children of Gluskap : Wabanaki Indians on the eve of the European invasion / Harald E.L. Prins -- Mapping otherness : myth and the study of cultural encounter / Kenneth M. Morrison -- Trade and alliances in the contact period / Bruce J. Bourque and Ruth H. Whitehead -- The exploration of Norumbega : native perspectives / James Axtell -- Political definitions : creating Maine and Acadia / John G. Reid -- "Wee tooke great store of cod-fish" : fishing ships and first settlements on the coast of New England, 1600-1630 / Faith Harrington -- Fort Pentagoet and Castin's habitation : French ventures in Acadian Maine / Alaric Faulkner and Gretchen F. Faulkner -- Mid-seventeenth-century Maine : a world on the edge / Edwin A. Churchill -- The world of Thomas Gorges : life in the province of Maine in the 1640s / Emerson W. Baker -- New England cartography and the Native Americans / J.B. Harley. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Emerson W. Baker ... [et al.]. |
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Abstract:
This illustrated collection of essays examines early Native American contact with European explorers, fishermen, and traders in "Norumbega," the sixteenth-century name of the Atlantic coast of New England near the Penobscot River in Maine. This coast was the focus of several French and English voyagers seeking a northwest passage and other avenues to riches and treasure. A tacit division gradually emerged: the French concentrated on the region north of the Penobscot and the English on the lands to the south. The 100 illustrations in this book come largely from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine and include many rare early maps (1500-1800). Ten are reproduced in full color.
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- Indians of North America -- Maine -- History.
- Indians of North America -- History.
- United States -- Discovery and exploration.
- Cartography -- Europe -- History.
- Norumbega (Legendary place)
- Indianen.
- Ontdekkingsreizen.
- Cartografie.
- Indiens d'Amérique -- Maine -- Histoire.
- Indiens d'Amérique -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Cartographie -- Europe -- Histoire.
- États-Unis -- Découverte et exploration.
- Norumbega.
- Entdeckung
- Geschichte.
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Geschichte 1500-1650.
- Kartographie
- Maine
- Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire.
- Nouvelle-Angleterre (États-Unis) -- Histoire -- 1600-1775 (Période coloniale).
- États-Unis -- Descriptions et voyages -- 17e siècle.
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