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Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Cruising Voyage Round the World written by Woodes Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sydney Parkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship written by Sydney Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Cooke
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344445330
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (453 download)
Download or read book A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711 written by Edward Cooke and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Cummins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Voyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740 - 1 written by John Cummins and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105681
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Great South Sea written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.
Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Pacific Presences
ISBN 13 : 9789088905742
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Collecting in the South Sea written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Pacific Presences. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La Pérouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java, its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost. The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and catalog of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. The focus on artifacts is informed by a broad conception of collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous protagonists and also as materialized in other genres--written accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings, engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging (1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections. Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings, relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to present implications of objects and their histories, especially for modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
Author : Danielle Clode
Publisher : Ligature
ISBN 13 : 1761280902
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Voyages to the South Seas written by Danielle Clode and published by Ligature. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Laperouse and Labillardiere, Baudin and Bougainville and others left they won lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge. This is their story - deeply researched and richly imagined by zoologist and award-winning science writer Danielle Clode. Voyages to the South Seas is an exhilarating expedition through a key period in the European exploration of the Pacific and in the history of science. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction
Author : Anne Salmond
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1742287816
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Bligh written by Anne Salmond and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as key players. From 1777, Salmond charts Bligh's three Pacific voyages – with Captain James Cook in the Resolution, on board the Bounty, and as commander of the Providence. Salmond offers new insights into the mutiny aboard the Bounty – and on Bligh's extraordinary 3000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat – through new revelations from unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. We learn of their passionate relationship, and her unstinting loyalty throughout the trials of his turbulent career and his fight to clear his name. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh as an important ethnographer, adding to the paradoxical legacy of the famed seaman. For the first time, we hear how Bligh and his men were changed by their experiences in the South Seas, and how in turn they changed that island world forever. 'Remarkable . . . The mutiny has inspired some marvellous books, of which this is possibly the finest.' --Jim Eagles, New Zealand Herald
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440649103
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Author : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226468496
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680-1840 written by Jonathan Lamb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violence, wonder, and nostalgia of voyaging are nowhere more vivid than in the literature of South Seas exploration. Preserving the Self in the South Seas charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed. Lamb contends that European exploration of the South Seas was less confident and mindful than we have assumed. It was, instead, conducted in moods of distraction and infatuation that were hard to make sense of and difficult to narrate, and it prompted reactions among indigenous peoples that were equally passionate and irregular. Preserving the Self in the South Seas also examines these common crises of exploration in the context of a metropolitan audience that eagerly consumed narratives of the Pacific while doubting their truth. Lamb considers why these halting and incredible journals were so popular with the reading public, and suggests that they dramatized anxieties and bafflements rankling at the heart of commercial society.
Author : Adrian Mitchell
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1862547599
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Dampier's Monkey written by Adrian Mitchell and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Including William Dampier's unpublished journal".
Author : Anne Salmond
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300100922
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Trial of the Cannibal Dog written by Anne Salmond and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of Captain Cook's encounters with the Polynesian Islanders is retold here in bold, vivid style, capturing the complex (and sometimes sexual) relationships between the explorers and the Islanders as well as the unresolved issues that led to Cook's violent death on the shores of Hawaii. (History)
Author : Lowell Don Holmes
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574091304
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Treasured Islands written by Lowell Don Holmes and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has
Author : John Bulkeley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108083412
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740–1 written by John Bulkeley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary 1743 account of survival against the odds following the wreck of HMS Wager after rounding Cape Horn.
Author : Charles Medyett Goodridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter written by Charles Medyett Goodridge and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007466455
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Unknown Shore written by Patrick O’Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book Patrick O’Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
