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A canal to join two oceans runs through much of Nicaragua's printed geography, linking its great lakes and the San Juan Rive...

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A canal to join two oceans runs through much of Nicaragua's printed geography, linking its great lakes and the San Juan River to nineteenth-century schemes for an interoceanic passage. The maps compare routes across Nicaragua and Panama, examine the Isthmus of Rivas and follow the river towards Greytown, while regional sheets by Bellin, Tallis, Johnston and other publishers and thematic sketches of political divisions, volcanoes and mountain barriers set the plans in context. The prints include George Cooper's lithographs of San Juan, El Realejo and Chinandega, lakeside travel, markets and washing scenes, and the volcanoes of Momotombo, Mombacho and the Maribios range.

A canal to join two oceans runs through much of Nicaragua's printed geography, linking its great lakes and the San Juan River to nineteenth-century schemes for an interoceanic passage. The maps compare routes across Nicaragua and Panama, examine the Isthmus of Rivas and follow the river towards Greytown, while regional sheets by Bellin, Tallis, Johnston and other publishers and thematic sketches of political divisions, volcanoes and mountain barriers set the plans in context. The prints include George Cooper's lithographs of San Juan, El Realejo and Chinandega, lakeside travel, markets and washing scenes, and the volcanoes of Momotombo, Mombacho and the Maribios range.

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