Author: George Parker Winship
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737706267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring eleven stories of navigation of the New Egland coast between the years 1524 and 1624, Valiant Navigators brings us on board multiple sailing vessels to witness firsthand what the explorers saw. Originally published in 1905, this volume includes brief journals and letters of Giovanni de Verrazano, David Ingram, Bartholomew Gosnold, Martin Pring, Samuel de Champlain, George Waymouth, Georg Popham, Henry Hudson, John Smith, Thomas Dermer, and Christopher Levett. Over the span of this century, these men originally sought the Northwest Passage to China, but eventually turned their eye toward settlement of this new land. In each letter you will read firsthand accounts of the coastline, trees, plants, wildlife, and of course, their encounters with the Native tribes. You'll also see more historic names, including Squanto and Samoset.The original version is kept intact, with minor changes in spelling (from Elizabethan English to modern English), and contains additional footnotes, portraits, and maps. This Knowledge Keepers book is part of an ongoing project to reprint historic American texts in an affordable edition to keep our history alive and in home libraries.
Valiant Navigators
Author: George Parker Winship
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737706267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring eleven stories of navigation of the New Egland coast between the years 1524 and 1624, Valiant Navigators brings us on board multiple sailing vessels to witness firsthand what the explorers saw. Originally published in 1905, this volume includes brief journals and letters of Giovanni de Verrazano, David Ingram, Bartholomew Gosnold, Martin Pring, Samuel de Champlain, George Waymouth, Georg Popham, Henry Hudson, John Smith, Thomas Dermer, and Christopher Levett. Over the span of this century, these men originally sought the Northwest Passage to China, but eventually turned their eye toward settlement of this new land. In each letter you will read firsthand accounts of the coastline, trees, plants, wildlife, and of course, their encounters with the Native tribes. You'll also see more historic names, including Squanto and Samoset.The original version is kept intact, with minor changes in spelling (from Elizabethan English to modern English), and contains additional footnotes, portraits, and maps. This Knowledge Keepers book is part of an ongoing project to reprint historic American texts in an affordable edition to keep our history alive and in home libraries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737706267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring eleven stories of navigation of the New Egland coast between the years 1524 and 1624, Valiant Navigators brings us on board multiple sailing vessels to witness firsthand what the explorers saw. Originally published in 1905, this volume includes brief journals and letters of Giovanni de Verrazano, David Ingram, Bartholomew Gosnold, Martin Pring, Samuel de Champlain, George Waymouth, Georg Popham, Henry Hudson, John Smith, Thomas Dermer, and Christopher Levett. Over the span of this century, these men originally sought the Northwest Passage to China, but eventually turned their eye toward settlement of this new land. In each letter you will read firsthand accounts of the coastline, trees, plants, wildlife, and of course, their encounters with the Native tribes. You'll also see more historic names, including Squanto and Samoset.The original version is kept intact, with minor changes in spelling (from Elizabethan English to modern English), and contains additional footnotes, portraits, and maps. This Knowledge Keepers book is part of an ongoing project to reprint historic American texts in an affordable edition to keep our history alive and in home libraries.
Navigator
Send Me
Author: Nicola Di Matteo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514465302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
All over the world, like a train that first comes to a halt, then goes back again, the progress of the civil societies strangely and mysteriously stops and returns to a sort of obscure high middle age. One day, the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, together with the Seraph Daniel, appear to four young farmers, the Oeedah brothers, and ask them go to the earthly paradise and accomplish a difficult and dangerous mission.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514465302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
All over the world, like a train that first comes to a halt, then goes back again, the progress of the civil societies strangely and mysteriously stops and returns to a sort of obscure high middle age. One day, the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, together with the Seraph Daniel, appear to four young farmers, the Oeedah brothers, and ask them go to the earthly paradise and accomplish a difficult and dangerous mission.
The Sea Fathers: a Series of Lives of Great Navigators of Former Times
Author: Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Psychic Control Through Self-knowledge
Author: Walter Winston Kenilworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Control (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Control (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Dropping Britains First H-Bomb
Author: Group Captain Kenneth Hubbard OBE DFC AFC
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844157474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
On 15 May 1957 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber X.D.818 under the command of Wg. Cdr. Kenneth Hubbard, O.C. 49 Squadron R.A.F., dropped Britains first live thermonuclear bomb. The success of Operation Grapple broadcast to the world that the UK had the resolve and the capability to protect her own democracy and that of her Commonwealth. It was a major breakthrough that ensured Britain maintained her place in the most senior influential positions of the United Nations and other corridors of world power, and in the ensuing years provide Britains deterrent throughout the decades of the Cold War. The theme of this book is to explain how the R.A.F. selected and trained the crews who would be responsible for the precision dropping of the several weapons that would detonate during Grapple. It also provides a complete background to the parts played by all other services during this unique period in British history.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844157474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
On 15 May 1957 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber X.D.818 under the command of Wg. Cdr. Kenneth Hubbard, O.C. 49 Squadron R.A.F., dropped Britains first live thermonuclear bomb. The success of Operation Grapple broadcast to the world that the UK had the resolve and the capability to protect her own democracy and that of her Commonwealth. It was a major breakthrough that ensured Britain maintained her place in the most senior influential positions of the United Nations and other corridors of world power, and in the ensuing years provide Britains deterrent throughout the decades of the Cold War. The theme of this book is to explain how the R.A.F. selected and trained the crews who would be responsible for the precision dropping of the several weapons that would detonate during Grapple. It also provides a complete background to the parts played by all other services during this unique period in British history.
The Grand Canyon of Arizona
The Eclectic Magazine
The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes Agnew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description