Download or read book A Voyage to the North West Side of America written by Robert Galois and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2003-01-12 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Colnett, a veteran of James Cook's second voyage to North America, was an early participant in the maritime sea otter trade. Between 1786 and 1789 his two-vessel expedition traversed the Northwest Coast from Prince William Sound to Vancouver Island and wintered on the Hawaiian Islands. Along the way, he and his crew had some remarkable encounters with Native peoples of the Northwest Coast and the Hawaiian Islands: they were the first Europeans to encounter the Tsimshian and the southern Heiltsuk peoples as well as the first to land on the southern Queen Charlotte Islands. Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical. This fascinating and informative account offers a new understanding of the early European presence in the Northwest and of Native responses to these developments. It will interest historians, geographers, and ethnographers of the Northwest Coast and beyond.
Download or read book Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America 1792 written by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra's journals of his 1792 travels to the Northwest Coast of North America and his encounters with the native populations, includes original charts and illustrations.
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage with Bering 1741 1742 written by Georg Wilhelm Steller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New translation based completely on a surviving copy of Steller's 1743 manuscript that details the exploration of Alaska.
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World But More Particularly to the North West Coast of America Performed in 1785 1786 1787 and 1788 in the King George and Queen Charlotte Captains Portlock and Dixon written by Nathaniel Portlock and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to the North West Side of America written by Robert Galois and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colnett's journal of this expedition is published here for the first time. Editor Robert Galois provides extensive annotations, along with an introductory essay addressing the geopolitical context of the voyage and the intellectual background that shaped the writing of the journal. Galois supplements Colnett's writings with extracts from a second journal -- also previously unpublished -- by Andrew Bracey Taylor, third mate on one of the ships under Colnett's command. Also included are illustrations from Colnett's journals and a variety of maps, both contemporary and historical.
Download or read book The Northwest Coast written by Barry M. Gough and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Coast documents Britain's rise to pre-eminence in this far-flung corner of the empire. It shows how the relentless activities of its commercial interests, the adroit use of its naval power, and the steely resolve of its diplomats secured British claims to dominion and rights to trade along the Northwest Coast. Written by a leading maritime scholar and based on fresh research into known manuscripts and printed works on Pacific trade and exploration, this book incorporates new interpretations on exploration and commercial activity in this area.
Download or read book On the Northwest written by Robert Lloyd Webb and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest, primarily in the coastal waters of Washington, British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska, from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Focuses on working lives of the seaman and is illustrated with paintings, prints, and photographs, and a complete transcript of one whaleman's journal.
Download or read book The American Register Or General Repository of History Politics and Science written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Ocean written by David Igler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global attention turned to the Pacific, and European and American dreams of scientific exploration, trade, and empire grew dramatically. By the time of the California gold rush, the Pacific's many shores were fully integrated into world markets-and world consciousness. The Great Ocean draws on hundreds of documented voyages--some painstakingly recorded by participants, some only known by archeological remains or indigenous memory--as a window into the commercial, cultural, and ecological upheavals following Cook's exploits, focusing in particular on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the 1770s and the 1840s. Beginning with the expansion of trade as seen via the travels of William Shaler, captain of the American Brig Lelia Byrd, historian David Igler uncovers a world where voyagers, traders, hunters, and native peoples met one another in episodes often marked by violence and tragedy. Igler describes how indigenous communities struggled against introduced diseases that cut through the heart of their communities; how the ordeal of Russian Timofei Tarakanov typified the common practice of taking hostages and prisoners; how Mary Brewster witnessed first-hand the bloody "great hunt" that decimated otters, seals, and whales; how Adelbert von Chamisso scoured the region, carefully compiling his notes on natural history; and how James Dwight Dana rivaled Charles Darwin in his pursuit of knowledge on a global scale. These stories--and the historical themes that tie them together--offer a fresh perspective on the oceanic worlds of the eastern Pacific. Ambitious and broadly conceived, The Great Ocean is the first book to weave together American, oceanic, and world history in a path-breaking portrait of the Pacific world.
Download or read book Trading Beyond the Mountains written by Richard S. Mackie and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia Jurisprudence written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia with an Account of the Institution Charters Laws and Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia written by Library company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetics of the Antarctic written by William E. Lenz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) to Antarctica, James Croxall Palmer's epic poem Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843), and its revision, The Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), and by locating these works within their cultural context, Lenz reveals the significance and changing meaning of exploration to emerging American concepts of nationhood. The volume also considers the tradition of American sea fiction in the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, arguing that for these writers the Antarctic was a locus of symbolic meaning while for Palmer it was a process of individual and collective perception. The 1868 version of the Palmer poem is attached here as an appendix. A useful bibliography follows that appendix.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library. Library Company and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian of the Northwest as Revealed by the Earliest Journals written by O. B. Sperlin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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