Author: Roald AmundsenPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Autobiography.
Roald Amundsen
Author: Roald AmundsenPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Autobiography.
The Nation
Author: Explorers of the New Century
Author: Magnus MillsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408825309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The brilliant new novel by the author of The Restraint of Beasts
Catalogue of the Public Library of Brookline. Supplement 1873-81
Author: Public Library of BrooklinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Publisher
Author: Round About the Earth
Author: Joyce E. ChaplinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416596208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Farther Than Any Man
Author: Martin DugardPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743436393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cook's surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavor's stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cook's taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.
The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor (Classic Reprint)
Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor The author cannot do less than acknowledge, in this place, his great obligations to the father and mother of Mr. Taylor, to Mrs. Annie Carey, his sister, and to Dr. Franklin Taylor, his cousin, for their generous courtesy and most important assistance in gathering the facts for this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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