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1 online resource |
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880-01 PART III New Spain Changes Course. CHAPTER 11: Spanish Influence Wanes -- CHAPTER 12: The Revolt of 1810 in New Spain -- CHAPTER 13: Narváez Adapts to Political Change in Mexico |
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880-01/(3/r PART II The Key Expedition. CHAPTER 4: In Quest of the Northwest Passage, 1791 -- CHAPTER 5: Surveying "Puerto Narváez," May 1791 -- CHAPTER 6: Charting "Entrada de Nitinat, "؛June 1791 -- CHAPTER 7: Reconnaissance of an Unknown Archipelago, May-June 1791 -- CHAPTER 8: Exploration of the Gran Canal's East Shore, July 1791 -- CHAPTER 9: Exploration of the Gran Canal's West Shore, July 1791 -- CHAPTER 10: The Super-Explorers Arrived |
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APPENDIX A: The Local Geographic Legacy of Narváez's Expedition of 1791 -- APPENDIX B: Narváez's Missing Journal of 1790-1791 -- APPENDIX C: The Three Identities of an Historic Schooner (1788 & -1796) -- APPENDIX D: Dimensions of the Santa Saturnina -- APPENDIX E: Manifest of the Santa Saturnina -- APPENDIX F: A Brief History of the San Carlos One and Two -- APPENDIX G: Lineage of José María Narváez |
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INTRODUCTION An Overlooked Explorer -- PART I Spain Strives to Control the Pacific Northwest Coast. CHAPTER 1: A Young Mariner's Journey from Cadiz to New Spain -- CHAPTER 2: Investigating the Russian Threat, 1788 -- CHAPTER 3: Conflict at Nootka Sound 1789-1790 |
| Summary |
"Jim McDowell's new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada's Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to investigate a Russian fur-trading outpost in the Gulf of Alaska in 1788. The following year he became the first Spaniard to reconnoitre Juan de Fuca Strait. In 1791, he charted the interiors of three large inlets on Vancouver Island's West Coast, discovered a vast inland sea to the east (today's Salish Sea), mapped the 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 diplomatic missions around the Pacific Ocean, charted the waters of the Philippines, and engaged extensively in the political upheaval that transformed New Spain into Mexico between 1796 and his death in 1840"--Publisher's description |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Narváez, José, 1768?-
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Narváez, José, 1768?- fast |
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Explorers -- Spain -- Biography
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TRAVEL.
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Discoveries in geography
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Explorers
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Pacific Coast (North America) -- Discovery and exploration
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Pacific Coast (B.C.) -- Discovery and exploration
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Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.) -- Discovery and exploration
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British Columbia -- Pacific Coast
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North America -- Pacific Coast
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Pacific Ocean -- Salish Sea
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Spain
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781553804369 |
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155380435X |
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9781553804352 |
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1553804368 |
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9781553804345 |
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1553804341 |
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