Download or read book Notes on the Scots Darien Expedition written by J Parlane and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darien scheme was an ill-fated attempt by Scotland to establish a colony in Central America during the late 17th century. J. Parlane's notes provide a vivid and detailed account of the expedition, including its political and economic background, the hardships faced by the colonists, and the ultimate failure of the project. This edition is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of Scotland and its colonial aspirations. 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 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. 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 The Darien Scheme written by George Pratt Insh and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet explains the Darien scheme, the unsuccessful attempt in the late 1690s by Scotland to establish Caldeonia, a colony on the Isthmus of Panama, and become a world trading nation.
Download or read book The Darien Expedition written by Benjamin Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Darkest Jungle written by Todd Balf and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1854, Leiutenant Isaac G Strain, an ambitious American explorer and U S Naval officer, was given command of Cyane, the first ship to voyage to the Darien Gap. Strain was a natural born leader, a wild-haired, wiry-strong frontiersman who had travelled extensively throughout the Southern Hemisphere. Greatly admired, Strain was expected to successfully cross the ithsmus of Central America through the Darien Gap. However, the expedition would prove to be perilous. Armed with fraudulent information about the areas rugged terrain, phony maps and only a small supply of food, Strain and his team of 29 men ventured far from their ship and became lost in this mountainous, steep-banked jungle, full of unfriendly natives that attacked the party. Beaten down by intense heat and days of walking, some of Strain's men contracted lurid mystery diseases, while others, despite the lush vegetation, were slowly starving to death. The situation was grim and Strain beleived that their best bet for survival was for him to force his way down river in search of help. When he did not return after 21 days, the detachment decided to back track and left Strain for dead. But Strain made it back to his men with help, though nine had perished and the rest were delirious. He managed to lead his enfeebled party nearly 200 miles to safety.
Download or read book Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland written by Leith Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain.
Download or read book Darien Exploring Expedition written by J.t. Headley and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of exploration - Exploration in all the glory of isolation and starvation. There is something inexpressibly mournful in the detached sentences, entered by a weak and half-starved man in his journal. The absence of all attempt at description; the resigned, almost humble, way of recording their sufferings and their steadily-increasing prostration, are more touching than the most elaborate narrative. Tuesday, March 14. Left camp at 7.30 A.M. After marching about half an hour, Edward Lombard (seaman), who had delayed the party very much yesterday, threw himself on the ground, declared his utter inability to proceed, and begged to be left to his fate. He had made the same request every day for several days previous. "After much persuasion, Mr. Truxton led him along, allowing him to throw away his blanket and other effects. Among other reasons for refusing his request was the fear that he would go back and dig up and eat the Granadian commissioner."
Download or read book Scotland Darien and the Atlantic World 1698 1700 written by Julie Orr and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines qualitative fieldwork with analytical philosophy to provide guidelines for when it is right for states, UN agencies and NGOs to help refugees repatriate.
Download or read book The Darien Expedition written by Elizabeth M. Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Darien Exploring Expedition 1854 written by Joel Tyler Headley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Darien Exploring Expedition (1854)" by Joel Tyler Headley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Darien Disaster written by John Prebble and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay.The site of the colony, Darien on the Isthmus of Panama, was the enduring dream of William Paterson, the erratically brilliant Scot who had helped to found the Bank of England. He called it 'the door of the seas, and the key of the universe', and believed that it would become a bridge between East and West, an entrepot through which would pass the richest trade in the world.The first attempt to make the Company a joint Scots and English venture was crushed by the English Parliament. The Scots created it by themselves, in a wave of almost hysterical enthusiasm, subscribing half of the nation's capital. Three years later the 'noble undertaking', crippled by the quarrelsome stupidity of its leaders, deliberately obstructed by the English Government, and opposed in arms by Spain, had ended in stunning disaster. Nine fine ships owned by the Company had been sunk, burnt or abandoned. Over two thousand men, women and children who went to the fever-ridden colony never returned. It was a tragic curtain to the last act of Scotland's independence.John Prebble's book is the first detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from original sources in the records of the Company, the journals, letters and memoirs of those who tried to turn William Paterson's dream into reality.
Download or read book The Darien Gap written by Martin Mitchinson and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to drive from North America to South America, youll have a hard time when you reach Panamas southernmost province, Darien. The Pan-American Highway ends just sixty miles short of Colombia. This book presents the history of the region.
Download or read book Notes on the Scots Darien Expedition written by J. P. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on the Scots' Darien Expedition: Taken From Books and Contemporary Pamphlets in My Possession, June 1888 At the end of the seventeenth century the Celtic part of Scotland had hardly begun to be of interest in the development of the nation, and its position with regard to the world was quite an unknown quantity. 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 Crossing the Darien Gap written by Andrew Niall Egan and published by Adventura Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider that there is no road. Ten hours southeast of the Panama Canal, the Pan-American Highway penetrates the jungle, shrivels into a footpath and dies. The highway resurrects in Colombia, another continent. But the land between the two countries is a vast and primitive realm. On a map the two ends of the highway appear as two slivers of life, separated by the unknown. Filling this void is a rugged wilderness known as the Darien Rainforest. Because the Darien hinders all contact by land between North America and South America, it has earned the name "the Darien Gap." Yet most travelers never encounter the Darien Gap. When they go to South America they fly or perhaps take a boat. I decided to cross the Darien overland, traversing from Panama to Colombia by foot and riverboat.
Download or read book The Darien Expedition The Sun Aug 30 1856 The Darion Canal Times Dec 9 1856 Br written by Andy McDermott and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Darien Venture written by Frank Cundall and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Disaster of Darien written by Francis Russell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters on the Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
