Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers : The Diligent Writers of Early America

Name: Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226260723
Price: 6000 KES
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ISBN: 9780226260723

by Wayne Franklin

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0226260720

ISBN-13 9780226260723

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 30th, 1989

Print length 266 Pages

Weight 454 grams

Dimensions 2.30 x 1.50 x 0.20 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

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"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.

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