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Download or read book The History of New South Wales Including Botany Bay Port Jackson Parramatta Sydney and All Its Dependancies from the Original Discovery of the Island written by George Barrington and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Ferguson 345 but for misspelling of "Parramatta" The history of New South Wales, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Pamaratta [sic], Sydney, and all its dependancies, from the original discovery of the island : with the customs and manners of the natives; and an account of the English colony from its foundation to the present time.

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Download or read book A Voyage to Terra Australis Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country and Prosectuted in the Years 1801 1802 and 1803 in His Majesty s Ship the Investigator and Subsequently in the Armed Vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner written by Matthew Flinders and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Greatest Show in the Arctic written by P. J. Capelotti and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion. Even so, these ventures—the Wellman expedition (1898–99), the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901–2), and the Fiala-Ziegler (1903–5)—have much to tell us about the personalities, politics, and economics of exploration in their day. In The Greatest Show in the Arctic, the first book to chronicle all three expeditions, P. J. Capelotti explores what went right and what, in the end, went tragically wrong. The cast of colorful characters from the Franz Josef Land forays included Walter Wellman, a Chicago journalist and bon vivant running from debts, his mistress, and an illegitimate daughter; Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, a deranged meteorologist with a fetish for balloons and a passion for Swedish conserves; and Anthony Fiala, a pious photographer in search of God in the Arctic. Featuring an international cast of supporting characters worthy of a three-ring circus, The Greatest Show in the Arctic follows each of the three expeditions in turn, from spectacular feats of financing to their bitter ends. Along the way, the explorers accumulated considerable geographic knowledge and left a legacy of place-names. Through close study of the expeditions’ journals, Capelotti reveals that the Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration.