Download or read book Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan written by Rockwell Kent and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by Kent is an absorbing account of a trip that he made in a small sail boat along the bleak coasts of Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn in the 1920s. Kent called Tierra del Fuego "the worst frontier in the world" and the characters that inhabited this land "the very dregs of humankind".
Download or read book Voyaging written by Rockwell Kent and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voyaging Southward From the Strait of Magellan Classic Reprint written by Rockwell Kent and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Voyaging Southward From the Strait of MagellanAnd in proof of it (for, as a boast of virtue is evidence of wickedness, and of wicked ness the contrary, proof is needed), I mind the reader of a discrepancy in Chapter II of the book. There, while our poverty is laid bare, and the hand of others' generosity is displayed as fitting out my mate and me with many things, it is not told how and where we got our food supplies for a voyage of many months. Where we procured them, since the story of that would involve several persons of high position, will not be told: but bow, is my confession. We stole them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 N by E written by Rockwell Kent and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original. When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea." When the ship sinks in a storm-swept fjord within 50 miles of its destination, the story turns to the stranding and subsequent rescue of the three-man crew, salvage of the vessel, and life among native Greenlanders. Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog—and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall—is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.
Download or read book An Account of Several Late Voyages Discoveries to the South and North written by Sir John Narbrough and published by London : Printed for Sam Smith and Benj. Walford. This book was released on 1694 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Narbrough's 1669-71 voyage through the Strait of Magellan and into the South Pacific; Abel Janszoon Tasman's 1842-43 voyage to the Pacific, during which he discovered Tasmania; John Wood's and William Flawes' 1676 voyage in search of the north-east passage, during which they visited Novaya Zemlya; and the first English translation of Friedrich Martens' voyage to Spitzbergen and Greenland in 1671.
Download or read book Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Book Notes Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN written by JOSE VARGAS. PONCE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan written by Clements Markham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan: Translated and Edited With a Preface, Introduction and Notes All these works contain narratives of the greatest interest and importance. Several other voyages in the same direction remained to be edited, and it is the object of the present volume to supply the members of the Hakluyt Society with the means of acquiring a knowledge of some of these. 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 Globe Encircled and the World Revealed written by Ursula Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by the historiography of the European expansion. The studies selected demonstrate the range of this material, focusing in particular on the beginnings of trans-oceanic expansion by the Iberian powers. The volume has the further purpose of showing how the early encounters set precedents for subsequent patterns of interaction.
Download or read book A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan written by José Vargas Ponce and published by London : Printed for Sir R. Phillips and Company [1820?]. This book was released on 1820 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Distant Shores written by Constance Martin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich
Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Download or read book Quarterly Booklist written by Pratt Institute. Free Library and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan written by Clements Robert Markham, Sir and published by Kraus International Publications. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
