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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilledthe Promise of Democracy
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Andro Linklater
Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country. 30 illustrations. 5 maps.
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Creation
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Katherine Govier
This account of an episode in the life of John James Audubon takes him to a treacherous nesting ground near Labrador in 1833. It also follows the story of Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield of the British Royal Navy, who is exploring the Canadian lakes. The encounters between the two men illuminate both their professions, and their characters as well. ...
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Footsteps through the Adirondacks : the Verplanck Colvin story
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Nina H. Webb
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Chartered Surveyors: The Growth of a Profession
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F M L Thompson
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Surveyor
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G W Hawkes
When archaeologists, film makers, and a beautiful young women named Caliope intrude on their silent and solitary world, everything changes. A poignant novel about two middle-aged men, their magical and mysterious desert home, and the sudden shift in terrain that alters both their sense of place and the structure of their 30-year friendship.
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Vision of an ordered land : the story of the Dominion land survey
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James Grierson MacGregor
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Beaufort of the Admiralty: The Life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857
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Alfred Friendly
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A Day in the Life of a Colonial Surveyor
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Amy French Merrill, A F Merril
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Lost Patrol: Legends of the West Trilogy
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Morgan Hill
A fearless Western trail guide enters the Civil War and faces a dire new kind of danger.
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Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters
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Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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George Gauld : surveyor and cartographer of the Gulf Coast
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John D. Ware, Robert Right Rea
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Thomas Holme, 1624-1695: Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
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Irma Corcoran
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Land is the Cry!: The Life of Warren Angus Ferris, Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County
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Susanne Starling
Land Is the Cry! is the fascinating story of Warren Ferris, a New York Yankee who deserves to be remembered as the "Father of Dallas County". Except for a twist of fate, Dallas, Texas, would have been named "Warwick" by its two founders, surveyor Ferris and land speculator William P. King. Historian A. C. Greene calls Warren Ferris the most ...
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Union Pacific: A Western Story
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Zane Grey
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Mapping a Northern Land: The Survey of Canada, 1947-1994
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Gerald McGrath (Editor), L M Sebert (Editor)
Canada was a difficult territory to map. Planning, effort and overall cost were comparable to building the Canadian Pacific Railway or the St-Lawrence Seaway. "Mapping a Northern Land" recounts the immense human effort it took to define this vast country. From the naming of Canada's places and features to the role Canada has played internationally ...
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An American Topographer: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1983
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Roy Minnick (Editor), Phyllis Levers (Editor), George S. Druhot
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Surveying the Courtroom: A Land Expert's Guide to Evidence and Civil Procedure
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John Briscoe
Land disputes are increasingly involving public rather than private interests. Wetland access is taking the place of estate boundaries, and the expert witness-whether a surveyor, appraiser, engineer, or biologist-is often called upon to help a court reach a decision. This book provides these witnesses with all of the crucial information they need ...
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Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930
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I S MacLaren, Eric Higgs, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux
Mapper of Mountains follows the career of Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who provided the first detailed maps of many regions of the Canadian Rockies. Between 1902 and 1930, this unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to compile a series of mountaintop photographs during summers of field work, and spent his ...
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Founder of a city : the life of Colonel William Light, first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia: founder of Ade 1786-1839.
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Geoffrey Dutton
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The Unpredictable Mistress: Intimate Glimpses of an Oceanographer's Longtime Affair with the Sea
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Harris B Stewart
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Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West
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John Hales
"Shooting Polaris" is John Hales's engaging memoir of one memorable summer in the 1970s when he worked as a government surveyor in the southern Utah desert. In it, he describes his search for a place in the natural world, beginning with an afternoon spent tracking down a lost crew member who cracked up on the job, and concluding with his ...
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Civil Surveying Sample Exams: For the California Special Civil Engineer Examination
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Peter R Boniface
Two 50-problem exams, covering every surveying subject on the California Special Civil Engineer exam.
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Historical & Hysterical Woodland Tales
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Charles E Lawson
Most enjoyable and relaxing tales of roaming the Maine woodlands, Lawson begins with historical tales of flights out of the airport in Sanford where WWII pilots trained with water bombs found as he surveyed the heath. Commencing surveying in the early '60s, Lawson made notes of various tales he was told. Historical tales that he would later ...
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Men and meridians; the history of surveying and mapping in Canada
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Don W. Thomson
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Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia
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Katherine Gordon, PhD
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