Author: James ColnettPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn Into the Pacific Ocean
Author: James ColnettA Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn Into the Pacific Ocean
Author: James ColnettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795057038
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Languages : en
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A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn Into the Pacific Ocean
Author: James ColnettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108048358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
An account of an expedition to Antarctica in 1793-4, written by the Ship's Captain and first published in 1798.
A Voyage the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn Into the Pacific Ocean
Author: James ColnettA Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn Into the Pacific Ocean
Author: James ColnettMaine to Cape Horn
Author: Charles H. LagerbomPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439673209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Cape Horn conjures up images of wind-whipped waters and desperate mariners in frozen rigging. Long recognized as a maritime touchstone for sailors, it marks the spot where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet in one writhing mass. "Doubling" Cape Horn became the ultimate test, earning a prominent place in Maine maritime history. At the end of South America, it shares longitude 67° west exactly with Cutler, Maine, a direct north-south line of seven thousand miles. Maine Cape Horners were recognized by a golden earring. If they did not survive this most difficult journey in the world, the earring covered the costs of their funeral, should the body ever be found. Maritime historian Charles H. Lagerbom traveled to the end of the world to help research this exciting story of bold Mainers and their exhilarating and oftentimes deadly dance with danger.
William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795–1798
Author: Mr Andrew DavidPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409482294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with letters and the journal of his journey across Mexico (1793). Aiming to complete the work left unfinished by Cook's third voyage, Broughton surveyed the coasts of Japan, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin and Korea, despite being wrecked on an uncharted reef off the Ryukyu Islands in the middle of the mission.
William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798
Author: Andrew DavidPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1134767501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.
The Voyage of George Vancouver, 1791–1795
Author: W. Kaye LambPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131701233X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1872
Book Description
Four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - Cook's third voyage, the French expedition commanded by La Pérouse, the Malaspina expedition sent out by Spain, and George Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery. All four visited the northwest coast of North America, but weather and circumstances prevented Cook from making more than what Beaglehole calls ' a magnificent, an epoch-making reconnaissance'; La Pérouse only touched the coast in a significant way at Yakutat Bay and Lituya Bay, and Malasina's memorable visits were to Yakutat Bay and Nootka Sound. Vancouver, by contrast, surveyed the enormous extent of coast from Lower California to Cook Inlet, and his meticulous survey literally set out on the map of the world the intricacies of Puget Sound and the western coast of mainland Canada. It was an achievement that places him with his mentor, Cook, in the first rank of marine surveyors. As a midshipman Vancouver had been with Cook when he discovered the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands in 1778. They attracted his interest, and the attention he devoted to the islands, their inhabitants and their political future when he twice later wintered there will surprise many. This is the first annotated edition of Vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication in 1798. The original manuscript has disappeared, but fortunately no fewer than 25 partial or complete logs or journals by other members of the expedition have survived. These supplement Vancouver's narrative at many points. It has been possible to identify virtually all the host of islands, channels and inlets that Vancouver encountered, and the provenance of most of the approximately 400 place names he bestowed, nine out of ten of which are still in use, is indicated. Book 1 of a new and annotated edition of A Voyage of Discovery ... (London, 1798). The main pagination of this and the following three volumes is continuous. The voyage to Australia and Tahiti,
Miscellaneous Publications
Author: University of Alaska (College)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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