Table of Contents

Illustrations and Maps

Acknowledgments

How the Squamish Remember George Vancouver / Louis Miranda and Philip Joe

Introduction / Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston

1 James Cook and the European Discovery of Polynesia / Ben Finney

2 Myth and Reality: The Theoretical Geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver / Glyndwr Williams

3 Vancouver’s Survey Methods and Surveys / Andrew David

4 Vancouver’s Chronometers / Alun C. Davies

5 A Notable Absence: The Lateness and Lameness of Russian Discovery and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1639-1803 / James R. Gibson

6 Nootka Sound and the Beginnings of Britain’s Imperialism of Free Trade / Alan Frost

7 Seduction before Sovereignty: Spanish Efforts to Manipulate the Natives in Their Claims to the Northwest Coast / Christon I. Archer

8 Dangerous Liaisons: Maquinna, Quadra and Vancouver in Nootka Sound, 1790-1795 / Yvonne Marshall

9 Art and Exploration: The Responses of Northwest Coast Native Artists to Maritime Explorers and Fur Traders / Victoria Wyatt

10 Kidnapped: Tuki and Huru's Involuntary Visit to Norfolk Island in 1793 / Anne Salmond

11 Banks and Menzies: Evolution of a Journal / W. Kaye Lamb

12 The Intellectual Discovery and Exploration of Polynesia / K. R. Howe

13 The Burden of Terra Australis: Experiences of Real and Imagined Lands / David Mackay

Appendices: Vancouver’s Instruments, Charts, and Drawings / Andrew David

Notes

Index

Contributors

Promotional Information

Now available in paperback for the first time, From Maps to Metaphors, the classic on Vancouver’s voyage, illuminates the European and Indigenous experience of the “discovery” of the Pacific coast.

About the Author

Robin Fisher is a historian and the former provost and vice president academic of Mount Royal University. He previously served as the dean of the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of Vancouver's Voyage (1992); Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 (UBC Press 1974, 1992); and Duff Pattullo of British Columbia (1991), among other books. Hugh J.M. Johnston is an historian affiliated with Simon Fraser University. He is the author of several books including Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family (UBC Press, 2011) and The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar (UBC Press, 1989).

Reviews

A successful edited collection is more than the sum of its chapters; as well as a set of fine separate discussions of disparate topics, From Maps to Metaphors is a model of contemporary scholarship, with its foregrounded, self-conscious awareness of the location of scholars and their sources in time and place, as well as in personal and cultural experiences.
*Margaret Anderson, University of Northern British Columbia Book Corner*

We are indebted to the editors and UBC Press for publishing these excellent papers from the Vancouver conference for the conference brought together superlative scholars on Vancouver which attracted conference participants from all over the world. It must have been difficult to choose the papers that make up this volume.
*B.C. Historical News*

This is a solid work, and none of its chapters should be dismissed. The authors of From Maps to Metaphors succeed in their attempts to illustrate multiple perspectives regarding the onset of the colonial presence in the Pacific.
*Annals of the Association of American Geographers*