Author: Don HolmPublisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Circumnavigators
Author: Don HolmPublisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Round About the Earth
Author: Joyce E. ChaplinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416596208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
The Circumnavigators
Author: Derek WilsonPublisher: M. Evans
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Covers Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, John Byron, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, James Cook, Thomas and Alice Brassey, and Frances Chichester, among others.
A Brief History of Circumnavigators
Author: Derek WilsonPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472113292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the planet but within the spirit of the explorer. The story of circumnavigation is thus a long saga of human adventure, travel and discovery. Beginning with the fateful day in 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan was speared to death on Mactan and Juan de Elcano took up the challenge of bringing his surviving companions home, the story continues through four centuries crammed with astonishing exploits by men and women of many nations. Some of the names that feature are well-known, others less so.
The First Circumnavigators
Author: Harry KelseyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey’s masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial transglobal voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan’s armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey’s enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in European and American archives, offers fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion, sickness, and starvation but also of courage, dogged persistence, leadership, and loyalty.
The First Circumnavigators
Author: Harry KelseyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial trans global voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey's enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in European and American archives, offers fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion, sickness, and starvation but also of courage, dogged persistence, leadership, and loyalty.
Great Voyages in Small Boats
Author: Vito DumasPublisher: Clinton Corners, N.Y. : J. de Graff
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe, and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the voyage of Magellan to the death of Cook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Modernist Circumnavigations
Author: Kevin RiordanPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030962415
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne’s itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne’s story. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150th anniversary of Verne’s novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture and on the field of global modernism.