I. S. Maclaren

Mapper of Mountains

M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930

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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 winters collating them to provide the Canadian government, tourists, and mountain climbers with accurate topographical maps. Bridgland was a great climber and co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Mapper of Mountains also tells the story of the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project, which stu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-88864-764-1
EAN: 9780888647641
Produktnummer: 34611170
Verlag: The University of Alberta Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 314 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 11'201 KB

Über den Autor

I.S. MacLaren teaches at the University of Alberta in the Department of History and Classics and the Department of English and Film Studies. Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902-1930 (2005) is his biography of the Dominion Land Surveyor whose phototopographic work in Jasper in 1915 created the first reliable maps of the area and made possible, eight decades later, the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project.