Download or read book Three Caravels and Their Return to America written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the article "The Three Caravels and Their Return to American," by Sarah Bowen, published online as part of the Columbus and the Age of Discovery Web site of Millersville University. Describes the plans for reenactment of the voyage of the ships Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria, planned by the U.S. Christopher Columbus Jubilee Commission and the Spanish Society for the Quincentenary.
Download or read book The Return of the Caravels written by António Lobo Antunes and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies dissolve in the 1970s."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Horizons of Christopher Columbus Using the Heavens to Map America written by Arne Molander and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horizons were of fundamental importance to Columbus. The western horizon was the focus of his lifelong quest for undiscovered territory. He used the stars grazing his northern horizon as his guides for sailing constant latitudes, and the lunar-planetary conjunctions (LPCs) at his eastern and western horizons to measure his longitudes. Most 15th Century oceanic sailors knew how to sail constant latitudes guided by the stars, but few, other than Columbus, knew how to use the heavens to measure longitude. His innovative navigation method measured longitudes by comparing measurements of LPCs at his eastern and western horizons using celestial data tabulated in his Ephemerides. Major findings include: Columbus used celestial events, he served on a 1477 voyage to Nova Scotia, comprehensive evidence reveals his 1492 landfall was at Egg Island, Amerigo Vespucci beat Ponce de Leon to Florida by a dozen years, and Columbus may have facilitated a deliberate sinking of the Santa Maria.
Download or read book The Voyage of Fran ois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies the Maldives the Moluccas and Brazil written by François Pyrard and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appleton s Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Explorers of America written by Aleck Loker and published by Aleck Loker. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the stories you never learned in school. Ice Ace voyagers, Chinese, Viking, Phoenician, Hebrew, Libyan, and Irish explorers came to America years before Columbus. This book outlines eighteen different waves of adventurers who came to America, some to settle permanently, others just to trade for natural resources of the New World. Many of these stories are controversial, but taken in their entirety, they make for a compelling argument that the simplistic story of Columbus "discovering" America can no longer be accepted.
Download or read book Explorers and Their Quest for North America written by Philip J. Potter and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11 October 1492 the sun set on a clear Atlantic Ocean horizon and the night was cloudless with a late rising moon. As the lookouts high in the riggings of Christopher Columbus three ships strained their eyes into the golden light of the moon, near two oclock in the morning the watchman on the Pinta shouted out, Land, land igniting the era of exploration to the New World. The Age of Discovery became an epic adventure sweeping across the continent of North America, as the trailblazers dared to challenge the unknown wilderness to advance mankinds knowledge of the world.Explorers Discovering North America traces the history of the discovery, exploration and settlement of the western hemisphere through the comprehensive biographies of fourteen explorers, who had the courage and inquisitiveness to search the limits of the world.The book features many famous adventurers including Hernan Cortes whose victorious battles against the Aztecs conquered Mexico for Spain, Henry Hudsons sea voyages in search of the Northwest Passage led to the colonization of New York and exploration of the Hudson Bay in Canada, while Meriwether Lewis journey across the Louisiana Purchase began the mass migration of settlers to western America. Among the lesser known explorers discussed in the work are Vitus Bering whose discovery of Alaska established Russias claim to the region and Alexander Mackenzies 107-day trek across western Canada that opened the frontier to settlement, commerce and development of its natural resources.From Columbus to Lewis the exploration of the New World became one of humankinds greatest quests that altered history forever.
Download or read book The Discovery of North America written by Henry Harrisse and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni of Milan written by W.H. Smyth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the text originally published at Venice, 1572. The supplementary material consists of the 1857 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1857.
Download or read book The History of North America written by Guy Carleton Lee and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Exploration written by Michael Golay and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, highly readable reference This is an authoritative, one-stop resource for essential information on the exploration of North America, from alleged pre-Columbian explorers to polar expeditions in the twentieth century. Completely up-to-date in content and historical approach, the book is divided into seven sections, each covering a major area of exploration. Vivid, narrative entries bring to life early expeditions (e.g., African and Scandinavian voyages, real and apocryphal), voyages of European explorers, Western expeditions, and explorations of the Arctic. From the Atlantic seaboard to the Appalachians to the Mississippi to the northernmost regions, readers will discover the Native nations, geographical features, private and governmental institutions, and settlements that played a role in the history of exploring the continent. Maps, photos, and sidebars with lively first-person accounts from contemporary diaries, reports, and news accounts round out this thorough examination of the numerous adventures taken around the continent. Michael Golay has published five books on American history, including most recently The Ruined Land. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire. John Bowman is the Editor of the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography and numerous other reference works. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Download or read book The History of North America Discovery and exploration by A Brittain in conference with G E Reed written by Guy Carleton Lee and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appleton s Cyclop dia of American Biography written by James Grant Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Exploration written by John Logan Allen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than an assessment of historical events, these volumes portray the process of exploration. Without forgetting the romance of exploration, the authors recognize that exploration is a great deal more than the adventures themselves. All explorers are conditioned by the time, place, and circumstances of their efforts; these determine objectives, the behavior of explorers, and the consequences of their discoveries. In this first volume we follow the expansion of knowledge from the world of the pre-Columbian explorers through the end of the sixteenth century, with each topic addressed by an expert, and all fitting into a coherent whole. The volume is enhanced by a discussion of the geographical knowledge and beliefs of the native peoples of the North American continent, and how this knowledge influenced the efforts and understanding of the Europeans.
Download or read book North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Download or read book How the Great Scientists Reasoned written by Gary G. Tibbetts and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific method is one of the most basic and essential concepts across the sciences, ensuring that investigations are carried out with precision and thoroughness. This book teaches the basic modes of scientific thought, not by philosophical generalizations, but by illustrating in detail how great scientists from across the sciences solved problems using scientific reason.
Download or read book Library of American History from the Discovery of America to the Present Time written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 9 contains questions, plan for study, civil government handbook, manual of civil service, etc.
