Author: R. P. ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time
Author: R. P. ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage
Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354483202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (Vol. 1-18)
Author: Robert KerrPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7336
Book Description
Prepare yourslef for discoveries and new adventures with this incredible book about the true origin of wanderlust. This edition forms a complete history of the earliest start and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the early 19th century. First part of the work covers voyages and travels of discovery in the middle ages; from the era of Alfred, King of England, in the ninth century to that of Don Henry of Portugal at the commencement of the fourteenth century. Second part deals with general voyages and travels chiefly of discovery; from the era of Don Henry, in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760. The rest of the work has some particular voyages and travels arranged in systematic order, Geographical and Chronological, and studies voyages during the era of George III conducted upon scientific principles, by which the Geography of the globe has been nearly perfected.
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order
Author: Robert KerrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584252
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages
Author: University of California, San Diego. University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Author: