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From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver, edited by Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver BC, 353pp, illus, maps , appen, index; $39.95hc) These 13 papers were selected from 33 given at an interdisciplinary and international conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, 22-26 April 1992, organized by the editors, both professors of history at Simon Fraser University, to commemorate the arrival of Captain George V ancouveron the north west coast of America. Vancouver's great voyage was the last and longest ( 1791-95) of the great Pacific voyages of the second half of the eighteenth century, and completed the work of James Cook and the maritime explorers of Russia, France and Spain in exploring and charting that intricate coast. Collectively, the voyages verified the nonexistence of a navigable sea route across North America. Given the high quality of the papers presented and the distinction of each presenter, the editors were faced with a difficult task in deciding which papers to publish. Those published here constitute particularly significant contributions to their topics. Special mention should be made of several outstanding papers. Glyndwr Williams establishes the magnitude of Vancouver's achievement, finally proving the theoretical geographers wrong by charting so accurately the lengthy coast from the Strait of Juan to Fuca to Cook Inlet. Andrew David (chief editor of the Hakluyt Society's monumental three-volume Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages) discusses Vancouver's surveying methods in great detail. Canadian geographer James R. Gibson discusses how, for some time, the Russians viewed the Pacific Ocean more as a boundary than an invitation to explore further. Australian historian Alan Frost documents Great Britain 's massive political, commercial and strategic effort to break Spain 's monopoly on the Pacific trade . Canadian historian Christon Archer uses original sources to establish how the Spanish appropriated native people to bolster their claim to the northwest coast. This volume is a significant addition to the list of fine pubJjcations produced to commemorate the 1991-92 bicentennial of the early exploration of the Pacific Northwest. FREEMAN TOVELL
The Viking Compass Guided Norsemen First to Amer ica, by Christen L. Vebrek and S¢ren Thlrslund (Vebrek & Thlrslund, 342 Teglgardsvej , DK 3050 Humlebrek, Denmark, 1992, 59pp, illus, bibli o; $12pb + $5s&h) From Norse bearing dials recovered in Greenland to the Bayeu x tapestry showing Norse-deri ved ships in the Norman invasion of E ngland in 1066, the authors search o ut and analyze the evidence of how the Norse determined direction and an approximation of latitude by sun bearings in their transatlantic sailing from a little before lOOOad onward. The acco unt includes interesting experiments at sea and a close examination of written records and archaeological remains. PS Steamboat Legacy: The Life & Times of a Steamboat Family, by Dorothy Heckmann Shrader (The Wein Press, 514 Wein St. , Hermann MO 6504 1, I 993, 288pp, illus, appen; $27 .95hc, $ l 2.95pb + $ I.50s&h) For 40 years, Mary Miller Heckmann , wife of Captain Wi ll iam Heckmann and mothe r of Steam boat Bill, witnessed and participated in the growth, heyday and demise of the steamboating life in Hermann Missouri. The author, Mary 's granddaughter, weaves Mary 's chronicle of her hardsrups and joys into the ill story of her town and the legacy of the steamboats with newspaper accounts and fami ly recollections that evoke life on the river. JA Sail & Steam: A Century of Maritime Enterprise: 1840-1935, by John Falconer (David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., Hortic ultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Ave., Boston MA 02115, 1993, 192pp, illus, ref; $50hc) This volume is an evocative collection of photographs from the National Maritime Museum in England. Fine explanatory text highlights each image of ships-sail and steam , large and small-and of men and women whose lives were domi nated by the demands of seas and rivers, in England and in distant waters. JA Ord eal of Con voy N. Y .119, by Charles Dana Gibson (Ensign Press, Camden ME, 1992, 212pp, illus, notes, gloss, biblio, index ; $28hc + $3s&h) In September 1944, a convoy of tugs, yard tankers, railcar carriers and barges began a 31 day cross ing of the North Atlantic. This 1973 book , once out of pri nt but now available again, detail s the preparation by the officers, the heroism SEA HISTORY 69, SPRING 1994