Download or read book Stories of Exploration and Discovery written by Arthur Bennett Archer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1924 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Exploration and Discovery Classic Reprint written by Arthur Bennett Archer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Exploration and Discovery This little book is the outcome of several years' experience in the teaching of an original course on the History of Discovery. The course has been given to middle forms, and spread over two years' work, with a fortnightly lesson. This has been supplementary to the usual work in History and Geography, and the study of both those subjects has been found to benefit considerably. An aspect of human endeavour and progress that is often only lightly touched upon has received more adequate and connected treatment, with corresponding gain in interest. The course has afforded opportunities for the revision of World History and Geography, from a fresh point of view, but the chief value has been found to lie in the stimulus to wider reading on the part of the pupils. The short list of books appended to this volume illustrates the scope of such reading. It has been difficult to choose, from the great mass of material available, just those stories which are at once representative and important in the general history of exploration, and interesting in themselves. The aim has been to preserve something of a historical outline, though necessarily incomplete, which may prevent the book from becoming merely a series of disconnected biographies, and may serve to illustrate the continuity of human efforts to solve the great problems of exploration. 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 A Book of Discovery written by M. B. Synge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole All these, says the poet in Ecclesiastes all these were honoured in their generation, and were the glory of their times their name liveth for evermore. 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 Stories of Discovery written by Edward Everett Hale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Discovery: As Told by Discoverers The boys turned over the books together, and the older boys showed the new ones what parts of N avar rete were translated in the Stories of the Sea. Navar rete is a Spanish editor of learning and skill, who about fifty or sixty years ago edited very carefully the original journals of Columbus, which by great good fortune are preserved in Spain; not, I think, in the original manu scripts, but in perfectly authentic copies. 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 The Great White North written by Helen S. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration From the Earliest Times to the Discovery of the Pole The material for this book has been gathered from the rich storehouse of Arctic Literature. The chief labour of its composition lay in elimination rather than construction. The great field I have endeavoured to present can hardly be brought with justice to the narrow bounds of a single cover, but I have conscientiously endeavoured to bring to the readers mind an accurate record of brilliant deeds that go to make the history of the far North, and have let the explorers themselves tell the story of how these deeds have been accomplished. Between the lines of their simple language describing stern facts or desperate realities, one reads the character and temperament of the adventurer; one gathers lessons of patience, self-sacrifice, and endurance unsurpassed in the history of mankind, and perhaps appreciates, for the first time, the splendid fibre of which he is made. Stripped of the conventions and luxuries of civilized life, he plunges into the great unknown to fight a relentless war against the greatest foes to his existence, - Cold, Starvation, and Death. 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 The Romance of Discovery written by William Elliot Griffis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of Discovery: A Thousand Years of Exploration and the Unveiling of Continents IN this four hundredth anniversary year of John Cabot's landfall in North America, I have written, at the request of my publishers, this book entitled The Romance of Discovery. It is intended to be the first of a series of three works in illustration of American history. The second volume will deal with the romance of colonization. The third will tell the story of American victories in war and diplomacy. 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 The Story of Geographical Discovery written by Joseph Jacobs and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Story of Geographical Discovery by Joseph Jacobs
Download or read book History of Discovery and Exploration on the Coasts of the United States Classic Reprint written by Johann Georg Kohl and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Discovery and Exploration on the Coasts of the United States The most remarkable description of that time is contained in the second volume of Oviedo's History of the West Indies. We here append a summary; but it is to be regretted that the date of the manuscript is uncertain. We know, however, that Oviedo published the first volume of his history in the. Year 1535; and that in the year 1557, when he died, the second volume, which contains the description here in question, was ready for the printer. 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 The Boy s Hakluyt written by Edwin M. Bacon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery This account of Richard Hakluyt and his narratives of English exploration and adventure, from the earliest records to the establishment of the English colonies in North America, has been prepared at the instance of Edwin D. Mead, the fine mainspring of the far-reaching system of historical study widely known as the Old South Work, for the instruction of young folk, by engaging methods, in genuine American history. The purpose of the book was to draw the youth of to-day to a source of American history of first importance, and a work of eternal interest and value. 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 The Discovery and Exploration of America written by Arthur Gilman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Discovery and Exploration of America: A Book for American Boys and Girls No branch of the work of education seems to the author of greater importance than this of giving the young their first impressions of the history of their own land. With a deep sense of this truth, the latest authorities have been made tributary to this volume, and the author has spared no pains to have it correct in every statement of facts, and in the difficult matter of dates. The work is a study of authorities, under the lead of such writers as those who have contributed to Mr. Winsor's invaluable Narrative and Critical History of America, and of those whose works are mentioned in the very extensive notes appended to its different chapters. For other author ities the Library of Harvard College has furnished ample resources, and they have been extensively used. Among the works especially valuable for the period covered by this volume are the narratives of the early navigators, found in the publications of the Hakluyt Society and else where. The young are not qualified to investigate these books, but they contain much that is of great interest to them. The more difficult words are explained at the close of the volume. The author limits the list in the hope that the young reader may not be discouraged by it, and he trusts that teachers will cultivate in them the habit of consulting dictionaries and other works of reference. Such a habit is of great importance, for no book contains all that may be well said on any subject. 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 John and Sebastian Cabot written by C. Raymond Beazley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John and Sebastian Cabot: The Discovery of North America A good many volumes and essays have already appeared upon the subject of the Cabot voyages; the details of these ventures have already been studied with the greatest minuteness and perhaps no events in the history of exploration have been the cause of more perplexing and voluminous controversy. Since the modern Cabot literature began with the appearance of R. Biddle's (american) Memoir in I 831, the educated opinion both of Europe and America has been changed in several important respects. It is no longer possible to speak (with Burke) of Sebastian Cabot as the discoverer of Newfoundland, to the exclusion Of his father it is no longer possible to exult with Biddle and Nicholls over Sebastian's extraordinary purity Of motive and elevation of character. On the other hand, a distinguished scholar has laboured to prove, not merely that. 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 The Seventh Continent written by Helen S. Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Seventh Continent: A History of the Discovery and Explorations of Antarctica Vikings and the Britons have. Unfurled their sails on the high seas 'and proudly raised their standards in the most remote corners of the earth. Amundsen returning triumphant from the field of battle has' received the plaudits due the conqueror, while Scott, the heroic Britisher, who likewise stormed the Barrier, scaled the icy ramparts and reached the goal, lies with his companions Where the fight was won, wrapt in the death mantle of the eternal snows. Thus have culminated the great ambitions of two lives. Looking back in vista of the years, there have been others who have struggled no less valiantly or died with the same heroic courage and the Southern Cross has had its votaries, whose love of romance and adventure have led them into untold perils. The extraordinary impetus to Arctic and Antarctic exploration during the last ten years has resulted in the discovery within a very brief period of one another. 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 Exploration Discovery and Conquest of the New World written by D. M. Kelsey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Exploration, Discovery and Conquest of the New World: Containing the Thrilling Adventures of Christopher Columbus, Americus Vespucius, John and Sebastian Cabot, Etc His first service was under the command of a relative, a Colombo who had for some time past held the rank of an admiral. We cannot tell the de gree of relationship; probably it was very distant; for, as we have seen, the father of the discoverer was a poor man, a mechanic. In the fifteenth cen tury, a man who worked was thought very little of; quite below consider ation, in fact; and perhaps the old admiral was not very proud of his poor relations. 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 Maritime Discovery Vol 1 of 2 A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times Classic Reprint written by Charles Rathbone Low and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Maritime Discovery, Vol. 1 of 2: A History of Nautical Exploration, From the Earliest Times Recorded honours shall gather round his monument, and thicken over him. It is a solid fabric, and will support the laurels that adorn it.' 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 The Discovery of the Great West Classic Reprint written by Francis Parkman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Discovery of the Great West Of La Salle. A collection of extraordinary richness grew gradually upon his hands. In the course of my own inquiries, I owed much to his friendly aid; but his collections, as a whole, remained inac cessible, since he naturally wished to be the first to make known the results of his labors. An attempt to induce Congress to furnish him with the means of printing documents so interesting to American history was made in 1870 and 1871, by Henry Harrisse, Esq., aided by the American minister at Paris; but it unfortunately failed. 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 The Boys Book of Explorations written by Tudor Jenks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boys Book of Explorations: True Stories of the Heroes of Travel and Discovery in Africa, Asia, and Australia; From the "Dark Ages" To the "Wonderful Century" Burton and Speke visit Abyssinia. - they decide to ex plore Central Africa - Exploration of Lake Tanganyika. Speke's discovery of the Victoria nyanza.-a new expedi tion equipped. 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 The Story of Geographical Discovery written by Joseph Jacobs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known In the Middle Ages, much of this knowledge, like all other, was lost, and we shall have to record how knowledge was replaced by imagina tion and theory. The true inheritors of Greek science during that period were the Arabs, and the few additions to real geographical knowledge at that time were due to them, except in so far as commercial travellers and pilgrims brought a more intimate knowledge of Asia to the West. The discovery of America forms the be ginning of a new period, both in modern history and in modern geography. In the four hundred years that have elapsed since then, more than twice as much of the inhabited globe has become known to civilised man than in the preceding four thousand years. The result is that, except for a few patches of Africa, South America, and round the Poles, man knows roughly what are the physical resources of the world he inhabits, and, except for minor details, the history of geographical discovery is practically at an end. 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.
