Director Stephen Hornsby receives award

顿颈谤别肠迟辞谤听聽has been awarded the John Lyman Book Award for Naval and Maritime Science and Technology from the North American Society for Oceanic History for his recent book聽聽.

鈥檚听聽was published by McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press in April 2011.聽 The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of聽, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas.聽 Professor Matthew Edney, University of Southern 海角社区 and Director of the History of Cartography project, comments:聽 鈥溌爄s an outstanding work of scholarship, well grounded in the archive, a project that provides a telling parable of imperial power.聽 Accessible and understated, it should be of interest to a wide array of readers.鈥澛 The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and historical images.