Mapa del norte de Bolivia señalando los limites conocidos i moderados con el Peru / por Cirilo F. Kiernan
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- Created Date
- 1886
- Description
Cirilo F. Kiernan was a British subject living in Bolivia. Educated in France and trained as an engineer in Germany, he was an adventurer who had traveled widely in the interior. Kiernan visualized establishing a commercial route from the Atlantic Ocean to Bolivia by means of a canal linking rivers in Bolivia with the tributaries of the Amazon (Kingsland 2005). Henry Hurd Rusby (1855-1940) was an American botanist and one of the founders of the New York Botanical Garden, and his specialty was research and exploration in the field of economic botany (Williams and Fraser 1992). In 1885-1887, Rusby, accompanied by Cirilo Kiernan, explored the route from La Paz, Bolivia, to the mouth of the Amazon. Kiernan's manuscript map dates from that period. Rusby later wrote a book about his experiences in this particular expedition. A printed map in the book (plate X) shows a striking similarity to part of Kiernan's manuscript map. The caption reads, in part, "Course of the Beni River as located and
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Subjects
- Bolivia--Maps
Manuscript maps - Location
- South America;
Bolivia - Type
- image
- Language
- Spanish
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Mapa del norte de Bolivia señalando los limites conocidos i moderados con el Peru / por Cirilo F. Kiernan. 1886. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/2180. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1886) Mapa del norte de Bolivia señalando los limites conocidos i moderados con el Peru / por Cirilo F. Kiernan. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/2180
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/2180>.