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Book A Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean

Download or read book A Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean written by Alexander Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Discovery of Tahiti A Journal of the Second Voyage of H M S Dolphin Round the World under the Command of Captain Wallis R N

Download or read book The Discovery of Tahiti A Journal of the Second Voyage of H M S Dolphin Round the World under the Command of Captain Wallis R N written by Hugh Carrington and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1948.

Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands written by Max Quanchi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.

Book A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels

Download or read book A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels written by Robert Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Arranged in Systematic Order Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation Discovery and Commerce by Sea and Land from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Illustrated by Maps and Charts

Download or read book A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Arranged in Systematic Order Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation Discovery and Commerce by Sea and Land from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Illustrated by Maps and Charts written by Robert Kerr (F.R.S.E.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science and Exploration in the Pacific

Download or read book Science and Exploration in the Pacific written by Margarette Lincoln and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains studies of scientific and cultural discoveries made on Cook's 1768-7 voyage to the South Sea in Endeavour, and issues emerging from this and successive Pacific voyages.

Book A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels

Download or read book A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels written by Robert Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr