The Atlas of North American Exploration : From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole

New York: Prentice Hall, 1992. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. A gorgeous, pristine copy. NOT price clipped ($40.00). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue boards. First printing, with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the dust jacket: "For over 500 years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America... [T]his great adventure is captured as never before in the lavishly illustrated ATLAS OF NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION... [with] more than 100 full-color maps... The routes of explorers Ponce de León, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Daniel Boone, Vitus Bering, Lewis and Clark, Admiral Peary and dozens more are re-created, showing the sites of encounters with native inhabitants or rival colonial powers, shipwrecks and uprisings, settlements and trading posts, and the death or disappearance of expeditions. Re-creations of historical maps illustrate the extent of the explorers' knowledge of the new continent -- while eyewitness accounts from journals and letters evoke their dreams, their disappointments, and the dangers they endured. More than 90 additional contemporary illustrations bring each chapter in this fascinating tale vividly to life.". First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Swanston, Malcolm; & Isabelle Lewis; Jacqueline Land (maps). 224pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.