Author: James Stanier ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
The Progress of Maritime Discovery
Author: James Stanier ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
History of Maritime Discovery and Adventure
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368837257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
History of Maritime Discovery and Adventure
Author: Maritime Discovery. A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times
Author: Charles Rathbone LowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385468167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Sailings Over the Globe, Or, The Progress of Maritime Discovery
Author: Publisher: London : J. Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Maritime Discovery and Christian Missions, Considered in Their Mutual Relations ... Illustrated with Engravings by G. Baxter
Author: John CampbellFathoming the Ocean
Author: Helen M. RozwadowskiPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed—of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction—is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities—in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests—from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography—origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.
Sea of Glory
Author: Nathaniel PhilbrickPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142004838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Chronological List of the Officers Conducting British Maritime Discoveries and Surveys
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Sea and Its Living Wonders. Fourth Edition, Enlarged, Etc
Author: Georg HARTWIG (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description