Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
“The” Quarterly Review
Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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 Quarterly Review (London)
Author: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Sylvanus G. DeethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047422
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
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