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Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association "I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods, " a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834. Thi...

Takes readers on an enthralling tour with four travelers as they faced treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food on the Arkansas frontier. But Andrew Milson also cautions that the dramatic imagery, provocative epithets, and frightful anecdotes in travel narratives often result in distorted geographical understandings of a place.

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This, the first publication to collate a broad international perspective on the pedagogical value of GIS technology in classrooms, offers an unprecedented range of expert views on the subject. Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are now ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. They have revolutionized the way people explore and understand the world around them. The capability they confer allows us to capture, manage, analyze, and display geogr...

This, the first publication to collate a broad international perspective on the pedagogical value of GIS technology in classrooms, offers an unprecedented range of expert views on the subject. Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are now ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. They have revolutionized the way people explore and understand the world around them. The capability they confer allows us to capture, manage, analyze, and display geogr...