Author: Johann Reinhold ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North
Author: Johann Reinhold ForsterPublisher: Dublin : Printed for Luke White ... and Pat. Byrne
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North. Transl. from the German, and Elucidated by Several Maps
Author: Johann Reinhold ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage
Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354483202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798
Author: Andrew DavidPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1134767501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.
Voyages of Discovery
Author: Tony RicePublisher:
ISBN: 9780565094430
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories behind these images--of explorers, naturalists, artists and photographers--entwine into a fascinating study of human achievement and natural wonder. Among the many stories of adventure and great scientific endeavour are: Sir Hans Sloane's journey to Jamaica in 1687; James Cook's perilous Pacific crossings; and Darwin's historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Hand-picked from the vast Library of the Natural History Museum, London, the illustrations and artworks contained here form a rare collection, most of which have been presented for the first time in this stunning book.
... Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: N-Z
Author: Frederick Webb HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
Author: Colleen M. FranklinPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
While Thomas James is not widely known today, this was not always the case: his 1633 publication The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James was, until the early nineteenth century, the British public's primary source of information about what we now know as northern Canada. The account of his attempt to find the Northwest Passage and the winter he spent on an island in James Bay made his name synonymous with exploration and the north. Over the centuries James's narrative was used to compile travel books and to compose philosophical treatises, histories, children's books, as well as poetry and novels - most notably, it influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Colleen Franklin's critical edition of the Voyage is the first since 1894. Her introduction details how James engages with both medieval and early modern perceptions of the north as well as the early modern imperative to base knowledge on observation and experience, and offers a history of the text's reception from its first publication into the nineteenth century. An invaluable reference on the early European exploration of North America, The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James sheds new light on the representation of the Canadian north.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Author: Charles BurneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description