Uncharted Waters (ePub)
The Explorations of Jose Narvaez
(Sprache: Englisch)
Jim McDowell's new biography of the little-known Spanish explorerJosé María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during theEuropean exploration of what is now Canada's Pacific Northwest Coast.Narváez was the first European to investigate a Russian...
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Jim McDowell's new biography of the little-known Spanish explorerJosé María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during theEuropean exploration of what is now Canada's Pacific Northwest Coast.Narváez was the first European to investigate a Russian fur-tradingoutpost in the Gulf of Alaska in 1788. The following year he becamethe first Spaniard to reconnoitre Juan de Fuca Strait. In 1791, he chartedthe interiors of three large inlets on Vancouver Island's West Coast,discovered a vast inland sea to the east (today's Salish Sea), mappedthe entire gulf, made first contact with Aboriginal peoples in the area,and found the site of what became western Canada's largest city —Vancouver, British Columbia. Narváez also undertook diplomaticmissions around the Pacific Ocean, charted the waters of the Philippines,and engaged extensively in the political upheaval that transformedNew Spain into Mexico between 1796 and his death in 1840.
Autoren-Porträt von Jim McDowell
Jim McDowell is a veteran British Columbia historian. His first career was teaching, which took him into classrooms from northern California to Seattle, New York City, and Vancouver. He taught elementary school in California and Washington, worked as an inner-city education consultant in Harlem and Brooklyn, and educated teachers at Simon Fraser University. McDowell also worked for 20 years as a freelance writer and independent reporter; he wrote hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles for Canadian and U.S. publications.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jim McDowell
- 2015, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 155380435X
- ISBN-13: 9781553804352
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2015
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