MIchael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island and Desmond White

and Desmond White

Fenchurch once realised how the world could be made a good and happy place

Arthur Machen wrote powerful

His supernatural tales draw their power from the long nights and dark lanes of the Welsh countryside that raised him

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MIchael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island and Desmond WhiteJust how, and why, did Vancouver Island get onto the map? How was knowledge of our immediate geography acquired and recorded? With 130 maps, dating between 1593 and 1915, this cartographic history tells the story of how Vancouver Island and the surrounding area came to be mapped. The book shows local cartographic milestones, marking progress in our knowledge through the islands richalthough comparatively shortrecorded history. However, the maps, by