Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilots and pilotage
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Memoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, to Accompany the New Chart of the Ethiopic Or Southern Atlantic Ocean, with the Western Coasts of South-America, from Cape Horn to Panama ...
Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilots and pilotage
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Memoir, descriptive and explanatory, to accompany the general chart of the Northern ocean, Davis' strait and Baffin's bay
Author: John PurdyMemoir, Descriptive and Explanatory
Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Brasilian navigator; or, Sailing directory for all the coasts of Brasil, to accompany Laurie's new general chart
Author: John PurdyMemoir, descriptive and explanatory, of the Northern Atlantic Ocean ... Eleventh edition; materially improved, by Alexander G. Findlay
Author: John PurdyMemoir, Descriptive and Explanatory, of the Northern Atlantic Ocean and Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for the Navigation of that Sea
Author: John PurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Phantom Atlas
Author: Edward Brooke-HitchingPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145216844X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet. Cartography’s greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms. If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas
Amistad's Orphans
Author: Benjamin Nicholas LawrancePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210434
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children’s own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling.
Oil Palm
Author: Jonathan E. RobinsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm landscapes and the people who worked them. In the twentieth century, the World Bank promulgated oil palm agriculture as a panacea to rural development in Southeast Asia and across the tropics. As plantation companies tore into rainforests, evicting farmers in the name of progress, the oil palm continued its rise to dominance, sparking new controversies over trade, land and labor rights, human health, and the environment. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day.
An Introduction to the Practice of Nautical Surveying, and the Construction of Sea-charts
Author: Charles François Beautemps-BeaupréPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydrographic surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description