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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Voyages and Travels Mainly During the 16th and 17th Centuries ...
Author: An English Garner: Voyages and travels mainly during the 16th and 17th centuries
Author: Thomas SeccombePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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An English Garner: Voyages and travels, mainly during the 16th and 17th centuries ... introd. by C R. Beazley
Author: Thomas SeccombePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Voyages and Travels Mainly During the 16th and 17th Centuries: 1. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. 2. The voyage of the Dog to the Gulf of Mexico. 3. The destruction of Portuguese carracks by English seamen. 4. Captain Nicholas Downton. 5. Strange and wonderful things happed to Richard Hasleton. 6. The antiquity of the trade with English ships into the Levant. 7. Edward Wright, mathematician. 8. A fight at sea by the Dolphin of London. 9. Sir Francis Drake revived. 10. Nineteen years' captivity in the highlands of Ceylon. 11. A relation of the retaking of the islands of Sainta Helena
Author: An English Garner ...: ... Voyages and travels mainly during the 16th and 17th centuries ... With an introduction by C.B. Beazley ... 2v. 1903
Author: An English Garner
Author: Edward ArberPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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An English Garner
Author: Edward ARBERPublisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages :
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Bibliography of British History, Stuart Period, 1603-1714
Author: Godfrey DaviesPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It
Author: Benerson LittlePublisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610595009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Who were the world’s most successful pirates, and why? “Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well.” —International Journal of Naval History More than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history. Stories of the thirteen most famous pirates as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages reveal how the pirates approached such invasions—and how they managed to elude authorities and sometimes whole navies. In addition, vivid firsthand descriptions recreate the excitement, fear, and fury of the most famous raids by these outlaws of the ocean. Delving deep to show piracy’s profound impact on trade, politics, military strategy, culture, and individual lives, the book sifts truth from myth, carefully reconstructs the geopolitical context of each story, and analyzes the tactics that brought the pirates glory, or led to their downfall. Also included are archival images gathered from around the world by the author, a former Navy SEAL and consultant on maritime security.
Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682
Author: Efterpi MitsiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319626124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’ construction of Greece in the early modern Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites. Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts, and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece’s contemporary geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.