Author: Clarence Bloomfield MoorePublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817399054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Moore Expedition Series
Author: Clarence Bloomfield MoorePublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780817399054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Seven Forges
Author: James A. MoorePublisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857663844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This first adventure in a dark fantasy series follows the war between the warriors of Fellein and the mythical people of the Blasted Lands, who worship 7 gods of war . . . Captain Merros Dulver is the first in many lifetimes to find a path beyond the great mountains of the Seven Forges and encounter, at long last, the half-forgotten race who live there. And it would appear that they were expecting him. But when he returns home, an entourage of strangers in tow, he starts to wonder if his discovery is truly something to celebrate—for the gods of this lost race are the gods of war, and their memories of that far-off cataclysm have not faded. The people of Fellein have lived with the legends of the Blasted Lands for many centuries. Lying far to the north, the Lands are a desolate, impassable place—the legacy of an ancient time of cataclysm. But even the dangers of the Blasted Lands cannot stop the occasional expedition into its fringes, where people search for any trace of the ancients and oft-rumored riches that once lived there.
The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Author: Clarence Bloomfield MoorePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The ninth and final volume in the C.B. Moore reprint series that covers archaeological discoveries along North American Waterways.
Endeavour
Author: Peter MoorePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book Review A Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for History An unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized world The Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying vessel that no one could have guessed would go on to become the most significant ship in the chronicle of British exploration. The first history of its kind, Peter Moore’s Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World is a revealing and comprehensive account of the storied ship’s role in shaping the Western world. Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his first major voyage, charting for the first time New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Yet it was a ship with many lives: During the battles for control of New York in 1776, she witnessed the bloody birth of the republic. As well as carrying botanists, a Polynesian priest, and the remains of the first kangaroo to arrive in Britain, she transported Newcastle coal and Hessian soldiers. NASA ultimately named a space shuttle in her honor. But to others she would be a toxic symbol of imperialism. Through careful research, Moore tells the story of one of history’s most important sailing ships, and in turn shines new light on the ambition and consequences of the Age of Enlightenment.
The Southern and Central Alabama Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Author: Clarence Bloomfield MoorePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817310193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
"The works by Clarence B. Moore reproduced in this volume were published originally in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, and 1918.".
Exploration and Empire
Author: William H. GoetzmannPublisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
ISBN: 9781597404266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.
Self-Help
Author: Lorrie MoorePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs—and a master of contemporary American fiction—comes “a funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories" (The New York Times Book Review). In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River
Author: Thomas NairnePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604736441
Category : Chickasaw Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Littell's Living Age
Author: Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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