Download or read book Two Years Cruise Off Tierra Del Fuego written by William Parker Snow and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A two years cruise off Tierra del fuego the Falkland islands Patagonia and in the river Plate A narrative of life in the Southern seas written by W. Parker Snow and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Native Peoples of Pampa Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to the Nineteenth Century written by Claudia Briones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish conquerors who explored the southern cone of South America reported back to Europe that the region was empty of human inhabitants. In truth, however, the large area supported a thriving, albeit low-density, population of foragers. Those foragers—the Mapuche, Tehuelche, Rankuelche, and Fueguian peoples—are the subject of this volume, which presents archaeological and ethnographic studies of their past. The southern cone of South America was one of the last regions to be colonized on earth. When the Spanish Royal Crown experienced difficulties expanding its colonial frontiers to include these lands, the area became known as a vast wildnerness at the very edge of the civilized world. As a result, the native peoples who did indeed inhabit the area were marginalized and as time passed the significance of their historical experience was ignored. This compilation of research by noted scholars of the region investigates the past of peoples largely neglected by the historical accounts of their conquerors. The history of the native peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego is a vital aspect of the region's past. Their historical knowledge and experience play a vital role in the struggle of a people to maintain a sense of cultural difference in an ever-changing world.
Download or read book Open Fields written by Gillian Beer and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-03-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of essays centres on Darwin and the incentives of his thinking from language theory to his encounters with Fuegians. Other essays include Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism, and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria P to Z and addenda written by Public Library of Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHYMOF THE TRIBES OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO AND ADJACENT TERRITORY written by JOHN M. COOPER and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra Del Fuego and Adjacent Territory written by John Montgomery Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird and Tragic Shores written by Chauncey Loomis and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-04-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances. Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and the brutal contest between man and nature. With a new Introduction by Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal
Download or read book At Sea with the Scientifics written by Joseph Matkin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth in 1872, a young assistant ship's steward, Joseph Matkin, was among the crew. Throughout the three-and-a-half-year voyage, Matkin maintained a journal from which he composed the many letters he sent home to his family in England. In his letters he commented on oceanographic operations, reported on shipboard events of special concern to the crew, and discussed at length the history, geography, and peoples of the many exotic and remote ports at which the ship called on its famous circumnavigation of the globe. The Challenger expedition established the foundations of oceanography and is second only to Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle for its contributions to nineteenth-century science. The massive quantity of specimens and information acquired was written up in the fity-volume series of Challenger Reports, and personal accounts were published by officers and scientists. No ocean voyage had ever been so well documented. Yet no account of the seaman's life "below decks" was known to exist until the early 1980s, when two substantial collections of Matkin's letters surfaced. The letters are unique in their perspective and fascinating for their depth and literacy. Matkin, the son of a printer, was well aware of the significance of the voyage and strove to present a learned account in a proper style. His letters convey a wealth of detail about shipboard logistics, the crew's attitudes toward scientific operations, and officer-scientist-crew relations. Unwittingly, Matkin also illuminates himself and the middle-class society of which he was a part. Matkin's letters, published here for the first time, bring freshness and immediacy to this great Victorian scientific enterprise. Philip F. Rehbock has edited and annotated the letters, providing a particularly readable work of travel literature for anyone interested in oceanography, voyaging, maritime social history, and naval affairs.
Download or read book A Year of Revolution written by Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. This book was released on 1857 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria written by Public Library of Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
