Download or read book Darien Exploring Expedition written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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 Darien Exploring Expedition Under Command of Lieutenant Isaac C Strain U S N written by J. T. Headley and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over Darien by a Ship Canal A report on the mismanaged expedition of 1854 with suggestions for a survey by competent engineers and an exploration by parties with compasses written by Edward CULLEN and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Over Darien by a Ship Canal A Report on the Mismanaged Expedition of 1854 with Suggestions for a Survey by Competent Engineers and an Exploration by Parties with Compasses written by Dr. Cullen and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1854 written by Various and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1854 Nautical Magazine includes coverage of the Crimean War, colonial Africa, the Arctic and the charting of Australia's coast.
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Download or read book The Journal of Ann McMath written by Ann McMath and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1851, fourteen-year-old orphan Ann McMath was sent to live with her uncle and his family in their parsonage in Horseheads, New York. Lonely and full of self doubt, anxious to establish female friendships in a new place, and questing for intellectual and moral perfection, she began keeping journal when she was seventeen and wrote in it regularly for the next five years, until she was married. A fascinating example of "biography from below," McMath's journal offers a rare glimpse of of life in the 1850s as it was lived by ordinary women, told in the authentic voice of a young woman coming of age in the Burned-Over District of Western New York. In addition to the journal itself, the book includes an introduction by editor C. Stewart Doty, as well as a geneaology, notes on the text, and a section entitled "People in the Life of Ann McMath," which gives brief biographies of everyone mentioned in the journal.
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