Author: A. G. E. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775 - 1861 (parts I and II) and Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen Transcripts of Registers If Shipping 1787 - 1862
Author: A. G. E. JonesShips Employed in the South Seas Trade, 1775-1861: Ships employed in the South Seas trade 1775-1861. Registrar general of shipping and seamen. Transcripts of registers of shipping 1787-1862
Author: A. G. E. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sealing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ships employed in the South Seas Trade 1775-1861 (Parts I and II)
Author: A. G. E. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, 1775-1861 (parts I and II); And, Registrar General of Shipping and Seaman
Author: A. G. E. JonesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780909434304
Category : Sealing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Ships employed in the South Seas trade 1775-1861, 1787-1862
Author: A.G.E. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy-Shipping
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
Author: Max QuanchiPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
On the Northwest
Author: Robert Lloyd WebbPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
On the Northwest is the first complete history of commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest from its shadowy origins in the late 1700s to its demise in western Canada in 1967. Whaling in the eastern North Pacific represented a century and a half of exploration and exploitation which involved the entrepreneurs, merchants, politicians, and seamen of a dozen nations.
The Grey Undercurrent
Author: Felix SchürmannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110759918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.
Rough Medicine
Author: Joan DruettPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415924528
Category : Medicine, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
CRC World Dictionary of Grasses
Author: Umberto QuattrocchiPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420003224
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2402
Book Description
2008 NOMINEE The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Award for a Significant Work in Botanical or Horticultural Literature now we have easier and better access to grass data than ever before in human history. That is a marked step forward. Congratulazioni Professor Quattrocchi!-Daniel F. Austin, writing in Economic Botany &n