商品簡介
Olmanson (history, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) traces the many fantasies about the southern shores of Lake Superior, whether they come from the diaries and letters of explorers, missionaries, geologists, journalists, industrialists, scientists or government functionaries. What we find is a land built almost entirely on imagination while the real shores, particularly Chequamegon and the Apostle Islands, became populated by people with distinctly different visions. The result is a close look and the widely various expectations and intentions of white settlers across the frontier, which in this case was a beautiful region overburdened by conflicting imaginary geographies. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Eric D. Olmanson is an institutional historian for the University History Project, University of Wisconsin?Madison.
