Download or read book FAMOUS VOYAGERS EXPLORERS written by Sarah Knowles 1841-1916 Bolton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Famous Voyagers and Explorers written by Sarah Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Famous Voyagers and Explorers Classic Reprint written by Sarah Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous Voyagers and Explorers In this volume, for the most part, those explorers have been chosen whose labors have been connected with North America. Columbus naturally comes first. Marco Polo's book doubtless influenced Columbus in his search for the route to India and Cathay. Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Sir Walter Raleigh, believing in the future of America, tried in vain to establish an English colony in the new world. Sir John Franklin, with many hardships, closed his pathetic and noble life in exploring our northern latitudes. The search for the North Pole has all the interest of a romance in the experience of Kane, Hall, Greely, Lockwood, and others. David Livingstone reveals much of Africa, and furnishes an example of true manhood and heroic purpose. Perry opened Japan to the world. Suffering and privation were the lot of most of these men, but by their courage and perseverance they overcame great difficulties and accomplished important results for the benefit of mankind. 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.
Download or read book Famous Voyagers and Explorers written by Sarah K. Bolton and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daring Explorers who Sailed the Oceans written by Roberta Stathis and published by Ballard & Tighe Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the ocean voyages of some of Europe's famous explorers-Prince Henry the Navigator, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, and Jacques Cartier.
Download or read book The Top 5 Most Influential Explorers written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes extracts from Columbus's journal of his first voyage. Includes Cortes's letter to King Charles V describing Tenochtitlan and the Aztec Empire. Includes passages from Antonio Pigafetta, a member of Magellan's crew. Includes descriptions of both the Aztec and Inca Empires. Includes pictures of the explorers and important Includes a Bibliography for further reading. *Includes a Table of Contents. Marco Polo was hardly the only European merchant or trader who traveled to the Far East, but it was his written account of his travels that would generate extreme interest in Asia. Having described such a rich land full of desired resources, Marco Polo's travels became a source for European cartographers of the era, and they became the impetus for men like Christopher Columbus, who added his own annotations to Marco Polo's account and used it as a reference for his own legendary expedition in search of the Far East. Centuries later, historians have scoured over the account and what was written in an effort to validate its authenticity, leading to sharp debates today. The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue." In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and beginning the process of European settlement in the Americas for Spain, bringing the Age of Exploration to a new hemisphere with him. Ironically, the Italian had led a Spanish expedition, in part because the Portugese rejected his offers in the belief that sailing west to Asia would take too long. Today Ferdinand Magellan is remembered as the first man to circumnavigate the globe, an ironic legacy given that he died half a world away from completing that journey. But though it ended catastrophically for Magellan and most of his crew, his expedition accomplished its objective, and in economic terms, the opening up of new trade routes with Asia was a more significant development than the conquest of the Americas for the Europeans of the early 16th century. The life of Sir Francis Drake, or, more precisely, the tale of it, is one of those prime examples that history is written by the winners. Drake was the most famous sailor of the Elizabethan Era, and he has long been considered a hero by the English. His successes against the Spanish as a captain and a privateer were legendary, and Drake was celebrated for fighting the Queen's enemies, sinking their ships, and capturing the treasure that would otherwise be used to finance attacks on England. Drake vigorously pursued every mission given to him by Elizabeth I, and brought all his skill, experience and training to bear against her enemies. He was recognized at court for his valor, praised in story and song, and remembered for the kind of personality and esprit de corps that the English have long desired and celebrated in their military heroes.
Download or read book Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold written by W.H.G. Kingston and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorers on the High Seas Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold is a collection of non-fiction stories for children about the adventures of famous explorers.
Download or read book Famous Voyages of the Great Discoverers 1910 written by Eric Wood and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Download or read book Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America Their Voyages Battles and Hardships in Traversing and Conquering the Unknown Territories of a New World written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by Nash Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated an mat Prutlprlpd of who, with self-sacrifice, devotion, and lack of persdprofit, have consecrated their lives to the education and development of the youths of all English speaking countries. A voice came from the westwand it whispered a met sage clear, And the dripping fog banks parted as the clarion tones drew near It spoke of shores wztrodden, and it sang of mountains bold, Of shimmering sands in distant lands which were cou ered with glittering gold. It sang of hemlock forests, where tlre moose roamed, and the bear, Where the eider bred near the cascades head, and the lucivee had his lair. It praised the rushing water falls, it told of the salmon red, Who swam in the spurning ripples by the rushing rivers head. It chanted its praise of the languorous days which lay neath the shimmering sun, Of the birch canoe and the Indian, too, who trapped in the forests dun. Yea, it told of the bars of silver, and it whispered of emeralds green, Of topaz, sapphire, and amethyst, which shone with a dazzling sheen CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Amerigo Vespucci See page 45 . . Frontispiece Leif Ericson . . 8 The Landing of Columbus . . Amerigo Vespucci off the coast of Venezuela . 48 Juan Ponce de Leon at the Fountail1 of Youth . 8 0 Balboa taking possession of the Pacific Ocean in the name of the King of Spain . 97 Capture by CortCs of the City of Mexico . . 178 The Death of Magellan . . m Giovanni Verrazano . . 208 Execution of the Inca of Peru . 215 De Soto in the Florida Wilderness . . 256 Champlain in the Indian Battle . 285 Henry Hudson in New York Harbor . 317 Marquette and Joliet discovering the Mississippi River . 369 La Salle at the mouth of the Mississippi River . 397Robert Edwin Peary, . . 413 LEIF ERICSON THE FIRST EUROPEAN TO EXPLORE, AND SETTLE IN, AMERICA. From Greenlands icy mou ltni zs from Icelands rocky shore, We sailed the ship which forged ahead and ruddy oarsmen bore We found the wdd grape growing we scoured the riuers bed, And chased the moose whose horns were broad, wl ose blood was rich utUE red. OUT axes felled the wild-wood, our spears the Skraelings slew, We sank their round slcin-barges as the cutting North Winds blew, Over the wild waves rolling, back to the fiords of home, We safely came to nncl or, -but zoell yzeaer cease to T O U . Saga of the Vikings, 1000 A. D.
Download or read book The First Voyage Around the World 1519 1522 written by Antonio Pigafetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Download or read book Famous Explorers written by Edwin Erle Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SC-SPCOLL (copy 1): From the James and Margaret Beveridge Fonds.
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Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward R. Shaw and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discoverers and Explorers is a book by Edward R. Shaw. It provides an overview of past explorations and discoveries, made by some of the most influential explorers in European history.
Download or read book The South Pole written by Roald Amundsen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 543 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.
