| Title | Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy |
| Names | Linklater, Andro. |
| Book Number | DB063089 |
| Annotation | Explains how surveying land in colonial America determined the use of nonmetric measurements and standards still used today in the United States. Discusses Thomas Jefferson's proposals and why a British mathematician's twenty-two-yard surveying chain triumphed. 2002. |
| Narrator | Synnestvedt, Erik. |
| Title Status | Active |
| Local Subject | Male Author - Mau |
| Short Book - SH | |
| Non-Fiction - NF | |
| Adult Book - AD | |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| History United States - 973 | |
| Biography Historical - BHST | |
| Mathematics - 510 | |
| Astronomy & allied sciences - 520 | |
| Geology - GLGY | |
| Technology (Applied science) - 600 | |
| General NonFiction - GNF | |
| Science - SCI | |
| History of North America - 970 | |
| Male narrator - MN |
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| LC Subject | Frontier and pioneer life - United States |
| National characteristics, American |
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| Ohio River Valley - Surveys - History |
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| Ohio River Valley - Geography |
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| Public lands - United States - History |
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| Surveying - United States - History |
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| Surveyors - United States - History |
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| United States - Surveys - History |
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| United States - Geography |
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| United States - Territorial expansion |
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| Medium | Digital Books |
| Language | English |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Length | 10 hours, 53 minutes |
| Publication Info | (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio). 2007 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: New York : Walker & Co., c2002. |