Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Alchemy of Conquest written by Ralph Bauer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period. As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.
Download or read book Explorers and Discoverers of the World written by Daniel B. Baker and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 322 men and women whose journeys shaped the modern world.
Download or read book Exploring North America 1800 1900 written by Maurice Isserman and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of a new nation following the American Revolutionary War meant there were many ripe chances for explorers to investigate the new world that comprised the United States. ""Exploring North America 1800-1900, Revised Edition"" traces the history of the exploration of western North America and the impact it had on the histories of both the United States and Canada. These stories present an exciting and inspiring narrative, full of moments of great courage, insight, and individual and collective achievement. Coverage of this title includes: John Wesley Powell's summer expedition that traversed the length of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon; the other explorers, aside from Lewis and Clark, who joined Thomas Jefferson's ambitious program of exploration, such as the Dunbar-Hunter Expedition and the Freeman-Custis Expedition; and, a look at the societies that resulted from the new Western territories, including Native Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans.
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward Richard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of Discovery written by M. B. Synge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Book of Discovery' is an account of the history of the world's exploration from the earliest times to the finding of the South Pole, written by Margaret Bertha Synge. The book chronicles the journeys of many famous explorers, such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus and includes personal accounts of their expeditions. The explorers featured in the book undertook incredible feats of bravery and endurance, and Synge's admiration for their achievements shines through in her writing. The book is beautifully illustrated with reproductions of early maps, woodcuts, and paintings, adding to the allure of the stories it tells. A Book of Discovery is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the history of exploration and adventure.
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketch of the remarkable discoveries and explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Originally released in 1899.
Download or read book The Discoverers written by Helen Delpar and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged articles contain biographical information about explorers. Includes articles about geographical knowledge and concepts of ancient and medieval worlds with emphasis on the 15th century to present.
Download or read book The South Pole written by Roald Amundsen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.
Download or read book Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies concentrating on the major discoveries of sixteen explorers including Leif Ericson, Hernando Cortés, Giovanni Verrazano, Father Marquette, and Robert Peary.
Download or read book A Book of Discovery written by Margaret Bertha Synge and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring North America 1800 1900 written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of a new nation following the American Revolutionary War meant there were many ripe chances for explorers to investigate the new world that comprised the United States.
Download or read book Exploration and Empire written by William H. Goetzmann and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward R. Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dared to sail near the equator which was thought to have such intense heat that it would boil the ocean water. It was also commonly thought at the time that the world was flat, and the ships would fall off the face of the earth. These men overcame these fears to explore and discover new lands. First Page: DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS BY EDWARD R. SHAW Dean of the School of Pedagogy New York University NEW YORK:: CINCINNATI:: CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY Copyright 1900 By EDWARD R. SHAW. PREFACE. The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives, in order that his first ideas of geographical conceptions may be gained from observation directed upon the real conditions existing about him, has been steadily gaining adherence during the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of geography. After the pupil has finished an elementary study of the locality, he is ready to pass to an elementary consideration of the world as a whole, to get his first conception of the planet on which he lives. His knowledge of the forms of land and water, his knowledge of rain and wind, of heat and cold, as agents, and of the easily traced effects resulting from the interaction of these agents,
Download or read book Children s Catalog of Thirty five Hundred Books written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Catalog written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers Classic Reprint written by Edward R. Shaw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discoverers and Explorers During the time the pupil is acquiring this ele mentary knowledge of the world as a whole, certain facts of history may be interrelated with the geo graphical study. According to the plan already suggested, it will be seen that the pupil is carried out from a study of the limited area of land and water about him to an idea of the world as a sphere, with its great distribution of land and water. In this transference he soon comes to perceive how small a part his hitherto known world forms of the great earth-sphere itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
