Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English: The history of the provinces of Paraguay, Tucuman, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Guaira, and Urvaica. And something of the kingdom of Chili in South America
Author: A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English
Author: Awnsham ChurchillA Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes
Author: Awnsham ChurchillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts. Others Translated Out of Foreign Languages and Now First Publish'd in English,... In Four Volumes. With a General Preface,... The Whole Illustrated with a Great Number of Useful Maps, and Cuts All Engraved on Copper,...
Author: Floating Islands
Author: Chet A. Van DuzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book is a unique treasury of information about one of nature's marvels: floating islands. It bibliography contains more than 1,500 citations of books and articles in 20 languages on the subject. The entries are annotated and cross-referenced, and there are both thematic and geographic indices. All aspects of floating islands are addressed.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
La Perpetuité de la Foy
Author: Antoine ArnauldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lord's Supper
Languages : fr
Pages : 730
Book Description
Vanished Arcadia
Author: R. B. Cunningham GrahamePublisher:
ISBN: 9780849012549
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. In Eight Volumes
Author: An Environmental History of Latin America
Author: Shawn William MillerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316224325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.