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Henry Raup Wagner (1862–1957)

Autor(a) de The Plains & the Rockies

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Obras de Henry Raup Wagner

The Plains & the Rockies (1921) 31 cópias
Drake on the Pacific Coast (1970) 2 cópias

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Nome de batismo
Wagner, Henry Raup
Data de nascimento
1862-09-27
Data de falecimento
1957-03-27
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Local de falecimento
San Marino, California, USA
Locais de residência
San Marino, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Educação
Yale Law School (LL.B|1886)
Yale University (BA|1884)
Ocupação
bibliographer
cartographer
historian
mine owner
Relacionamentos
Wagner, Blanche Henriette Collet (wife)
Organizações
American Smelting and Refining Company
Globe Smelting and Refining Company
California Historical Society
Bibliographical Society of America
American Antiquarian Society
Grolier Club (mostrar todas 9)
Book Club of California
Zamorano Club
Historical Society of Southern California
Premiações
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
Pequena biografia
Henry Raup Wagner will be most remembered as a successful capitalist and a producer of bibliographical and historical texts. Wagner was born on September 27, 1862 in a suburb of Philadelphia. He obtained an undergraduate degree from Yale College and a law degree from Yale Law School. After one year in practice, he left the law field and pursued the mining business as a vocation, eventually becoming part of American Smelting and Refining Company.

Wagner traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe until he met his wife, Blanche Henrietta Collet. They settled in Berkeley, California, and later San Marino, California.

Throughout the course of a half-century, Wagner produced over one hundred scholarly bibliographical and historical studies chiefly on Latin and Western America. One of his most famous publications was Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements. Aside from the volumes which he published, Wagner also amassed an extensive collection of books and documents of his own. Since his death in 1957, most of his collection has been donated to the libraries at Yale, Brown, Berkeley, and other universities.

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I own an original edition of this book. Voyage is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the Drake circumnavigation. The book, however, has one startling and fatal flaw. Wagner made a point of extensively including source documentation about the voyage but OMITTED ALMOST EVERY PASSAGE ABOUT THE DOUGHTY AFFAIR in the Cooke account. There is no excuse for such poor scholarship. His bias for Drake is as blatant as Zelia Nuttall's, who edited New Light on Drake. Thus, to learn what did go on between Drake and Doughty, which is arguably central to an understanding of the voyage, you have to go to the Cooper Square edition of The World Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents, which contains an unexpurgated version of Cooke's relation.… (mais)
 
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dwhill | Dec 4, 2012 |

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Obras
32
Also by
1
Membros
111
Popularidade
#175,484
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
1
ISBNs
10

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