Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands written by Max Quanchi and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Download or read book A chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South sea or Pacific Ocean written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean written by James Burney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1806 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain James Burney (1750–1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second voyage between 1772 and 1774, and was also present on the ill-fated third voyage. He retired from the navy in 1784 and turned to writing works on exploration. These volumes, published between 1803 and 1817, and regarded as the standard work on the subject for much of the nineteenth century, contain collected accounts of European voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean between 1492 and 1764. Burney provides summaries of Spanish, Dutch and English accounts, which include descriptions of voyages to China, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia. These volumes also encompass voyages to California and the Western coast of America, Mexico, Peru, Chile and other Central and South American destinations -- including islands in the vicinity of these locations, such as the Galapagos archipelago. While the main focus is on exploration in the Pacific some content includes Atlantic content covering the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and the West Indies.
Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Download or read book The island home or The young castaways ed by Christopher Romaunt written by James F. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Historical And Commercial System Of Geography written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office Pacific Islands no 139 147 written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A System Of Geography Or A New Accurate Description Of The Earth In All Its Empires Kingdoms and States Illustrated with History and Topography And Maps of Every Country Fairly Engraven on Copper According to the Latest Discoveries and Corrections etc written by Herman Moll and published by . This book was released on 1701 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Discovery of Australia written by George Collingridge and published by Sydney, Hayes. This book was released on 1895 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Download or read book An Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean written by William Tufts Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Index to the First fifth Ten Volumes of the Journal of the London Geographical Society index to vol 1 10 1831 1840 vol 2 to vol II 20 1841 1850 vol 3 to vol 21 30 1851 1860 vol 4 to vol 31 40 1861 1870 vol 5 to vol 41 50 1871 1880 written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Collection of Voyages Round the World written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These works which detail the experiences of the voyages of Captain James Cook from 1772 until his untimely death in the Hawaiian Islands in early 1779. These volumes were written not by Cook, but by those who accompanied him.
Download or read book Report written by Public Archives Canada and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Canadian Archives and on the System of Keeping Public Records written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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