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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Seaman's Practical Guide, for Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands; with Observations on the Islands from Blanco to the Rocas, on the Coast of Le Guayra. General Instructions and Observations on Making the Land ... All Taken from Actual Observation, by a Captain in the Royal Navy
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Islands of Salt
Author: Konrad A. AntczakPublisher:
ISBN: 9789088908163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity offers a unique entryway into the hitherto unknown maritime mobilities and daily lives of the seafarers who camped at the saltpans of Venezuelan islands from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, cultivating and harvesting the white crystal of the sea.For the first time, this study offers a comprehensive documentary history of the saltpans of La Tortuga Island and Cayo Sal in the Los Roques Archipelago, uncovering the surprising importance of their salt. Long-term archaeological excavations at the campsites by these saltpans have brought to light the plethora of material remains left behind by seafarers during their seasonal and temporary salt forays. The exhaustive analysis of the thousands of recovered things - pipes, punch bowls, plates, teapots, buttons, bones - contrasted with documentary evidence, not only enables us to understand where these things came from but also by whom they were used. By engaging the evidence through my theoretical framework of assemblages of practice, I demonstrate how seafarers and things were vibrantly entangled in the everyday assemblages of practice of salt cultivation, dining and drinking.This multisited approach spanning 256 years, reveals that seafarers were fervent buyers of fashionable products, drinking hot tea from porcelain tea bowls, using colorful ceramic chamber pots for their hygienic needs and imbibing exotic rum punch by the scorching saltpans of the uninhabited Venezuelan islands. Intended for scholars, students and the interested public alike, this historical archaeological study positions humble seafarers in the limelight, not as the anonymous movers of international trade and facilitators of imperial interests, but as avid trans-imperial and extra-imperial consumers of the fruits of those very empires.
A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Edward HeawoodPublisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804
Author: Alexander von HumboldtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Alexander von Humboldt's account of his monumental scientific expedition to South America and Cuba. Originally published in French between 1814 and 1825, this is the first edition in English ... This classic of scientific exploration was based on the researches of Humboldt and his companion, Aimé Bonpland, during their five-year excursion in South and Central America from 1799 to 1804. The volumes describe the voyage from Spain and the stop in the Canaries; Tobago and the first steps in South America; explorations along the Orinoco; Colombia and the area around Caracas; explorations in the northern Andes; and a visit to Cuba. "Humboldt and Bonpland traveled widely through South and Central America, studying meteorological phenomena and exploring wild and uninhabited country. At Callao, Humboldt measured the temperatures of the ocean current which came to bear his name ..."--Hill.
War, Demobilization and Memory
Author: Alan ForrestPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137406496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This volume examines the impact of the wars in the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1830, focusing both on the military, economic, political, social and cultural demobilization that occurred immediately at their end, and their long-term legacy and memory.
GB Used Abroad
Author: John ParmenterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780853770244
Category : Cancellations (Philately)
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description