Download or read book Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America written by Christopher Columbus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain It will he hardly necessary to remind the reader that he cannot expect to meet in this work with that regular order and elaborate execution displayed in modern works upon kindred subjects. A book of voyages or travels at the present day is not thought likely to prove acceptable with the public, unless drawn up with a lucid and methodical arrangement of matter, and a proper display of taste and care in the language. The authors of these writings never lose sight of the fact, or rather make it their sole contemplation, that the productions Of their industry will be judged of in the light Of literary performances, and this consideration demands from them the exercise of a judge ment and skill in the disposition of their matter, and se lection of their language, which it would be both vain and unreasonable to look for in a performance like the follow ing. Nothing was probably farther from the intentions or thoughts of Columbus and his transcriber in executing this volume, than to make a book and nothing could be per formed with a more settled disregard of the idea. Colum bus describes the objects which he saw, and the events which occurred from day to day, without essaying to give his narrative any greater portion of method or regularity. 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 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799 1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Year 1799 1804 written by Alexander Von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt, sometimes called 'the last man who knew everything', was an extraordinary polymath of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1798 he received unprecedented permission from the Spanish Crown to explore its American and Caribbean colonies, which he did from 1799-1804. This is the journal of those explorations, in which he extensively covers the region's topography, geology, fauna and flora, anthropology and comparative linguistics. Volume I covers his preparations, stop at Tenerife, landfall at Cumana and journeys inland in what is now Venezuela.
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 With Remarks on the Present State of the American Navy written by Fred. Fitzgerald De Roos and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799 1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt's account of his monumental scientific expedition to South America and Cuba. Originally published in French between 1814 and 1825, this is the first edition in English ... This classic of scientific exploration was based on the researches of Humboldt and his companion, Aimé Bonpland, during their five-year excursion in South and Central America from 1799 to 1804. The volumes describe the voyage from Spain and the stop in the Canaries; Tobago and the first steps in South America; explorations along the Orinoco; Colombia and the area around Caracas; explorations in the northern Andes; and a visit to Cuba. "Humboldt and Bonpland traveled widely through South and Central America, studying meteorological phenomena and exploring wild and uninhabited country. At Callao, Humboldt measured the temperatures of the ocean current which came to bear his name ..."--Hill.
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Kentucky written by Elias Pym Fordham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky: And of a Residence in the Illinois Territory, 1817-1818 For information regarding the personal history of Elias Pym F ordham, author of the narrative here with published, the Editor is indebted to Dr. Hubert de Laserre Spence, of Cleveland, Ohio, who has supplied not only a statement of his own knowledge of the enterprising young Englishman, but also a memorandum by his aunt, Sophia Worthington, and an interesting manuscript embodying the recollections of Mary Spence, his mother. The preparation of the notes has been facilitated to such a degree by recent volumes of Early Western Travels, 1748 - 1846, edited by Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites, that special acknowledgment of obligation ought to be made for use of material in the early volumes of travel made accessible in that valuable series. Full titles of the works chie y referred to will be found in the list of con temporary travels at the end of this volume. It is hoped that the publication of the Fordham manu script may be oi service to students of Western history in general, and especially to those inter ested in the processes by which the composite popu lation of the Mississippi Valley was built up in the great era of migration. 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 Pattie s Personal Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and in Mexico June 20 1824 August 30 1830 written by James Ohio Pattie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Western Travels 1748 1846 Pattie J O Personal narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and in Mexico written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799 1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander von Humboldt's account of his monumental scientific expedition to South America and Cuba. Originally published in French between 1814 and 1825, this is the first edition in English ... This classic of scientific exploration was based on the researches of Humboldt and his companion, Aimé Bonpland, during their five-year excursion in South and Central America from 1799 to 1804. The volumes describe the voyage from Spain and the stop in the Canaries; Tobago and the first steps in South America; explorations along the Orinoco; Colombia and the area around Caracas; explorations in the northern Andes; and a visit to Cuba. "Humboldt and Bonpland traveled widely through South and Central America, studying meteorological phenomena and exploring wild and uninhabited country. At Callao, Humboldt measured the temperatures of the ocean current which came to bear his name ..."--Hill.
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799 1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia written by Elias Pym Fordham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Kentucky written by Elias Pym Fordham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive growth in settlement took place in the Northwest Territory following the end of the War of 1812. Settlers came from the American seaboard and from Europe, especially England, which lost many of its middle-class farmers and artisans. One such settlement was the agricultural colony called the English Prairie, in southeastern Illinois in what is now Edwards County. Among its first settlers was a young engineer, Elias Pym Fordham, who kept journals which he sent back to England with his letters to his family. Those writings are here collected into a fascinating description of frontier life in the new republic. As the editor states in the introduction, Fordham describes "the land and people of Virginia, a voyage up the Chesapeake, a trip on the Pennsylvania Road from Baltimore to Pittsburg, the people of western Pennsylvania, the city of Pittsburg, the descent of the Ohio to Cincinnati by flat-boat, the land and people of southern Indiana, establishing the settlement at English Prairie, hardships of the first winter, the surveying and entering of public land, prices, wages, and labor in the West, the classes of people on the frontiers, a trip through Kentucky to Cincinnati, the Rappite settlement at New Harmony, and prospects for English emigrants in the American interior." An index to full-names, places and subjects augments the narrative.
Download or read book Two Years Before the Mast written by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1834, Richard Dana, went from Harvard student to common seaman, sailing from California to Cape Horn. This journal survives as one of the most vivid accounts of the relationship between man and sea.
Download or read book Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799 1804 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pattie s Personal Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and in Mexico June 20 1824 August 30 1830 written by James Ohio Pattie and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Narratives of Travels in Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Kentucky written by Elias Pym Fordham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal narrative of a voyage to Japan Kamtschatka Siberia Tartary and various parts of coast of China in H M S Barracouta written by J. M. Tronson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
