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