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Author : Samuel Wallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (552 download)
Download or read book An Account of a Voyage Round de World in the Years 1766, 1967 and 1768 written by Samuel Wallis and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Carteret
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (552 download)
Download or read book An Account of a Voyage Round the World in the Years 1766,1767, 1768 and 1769 written by Phillip Carteret and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534772
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It, 1767–1797 written by Edwin N. Ferdon and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centuries. Now Edwin Ferdon, Polynesian archaeologist and veteran of Thor Heyerdah's expedition to Easter Island, has interwoven their records to show us in fascinating detail what that society was like.
Author : comte Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (217 download)
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World written by comte Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Barwell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232144
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Albatross written by Graham Barwell and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “At length did cross an Albatross, / Through the fog it came; / As if it had been a Christian soul, / We hailed it in God’s name.” The introduction of the albatross in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” remains one of the most well-known references to this majestic seabird in Western culture. In Albatross, Graham Barwell goes beyond Coleridge to examine the role the bird plays in the lives of a wide variety of peoples and societies, from the early views of north Atlantic mariners to modern encounters by writers, artists, and filmmakers. Exploring how the bird has been celebrated in proverbs, folk stories, art, and ceremonies, Barwell shows how people marvel at the way the albatross soars through the air, covering awe-inspiring distances with little effort thanks to its impressive wingspan. He surveys the many approaches people have taken to thinking about the albatross over the past two hundred years—from those who devoted their lives to these birds to those who hunted them for food and sport—and discusses its place in the human imagination. Concluding with a reflection on the bird’s changing significance in the modern world, Barwell considers threats to its continued existence and its prospects for the future. With one hundred illustrations from nature, film, and popular culture, Albatross is an absorbing look at these beautiful birds.
Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351937421
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Facing Each Other (2 Volumes) written by Anthony Pagden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously ’discovered’, and then, as often as not, colonised, understood the strangers in their midst. This volume attempts to cover both these topics, as well as to provide a number of crucial articles on the difficulties faced by modern historians in understanding the complex, relationship between ’them’ and ’us’. Inevitably such relationships not only changed over time, they also varied greatly from culture to culture. The articles, therefore cover most of the areas with which the European world came into contact from the earliest Portuguese incursions into Africa in the mid fifteenth century until the explorations of Cook and Bougainville in the Pacific in the late eighteenth. It ranges, too, from Brazil to Russia, from Tahiti to China.
Author : Anthony B. Dickinson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949024
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Seal Fisheries of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies written by Anthony B. Dickinson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a chronological history of seal fishing in the Falkland Islands and Dependencies from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first. It concerns the fluctuating seal population due to sealing; the Atlantic and global demand for seal fur and oil; the competition between American, British, and Canadian sealers over the territory’s seal stocks; and the attempts by various ruling governments to prioritise domestic sealing, maintain sufficient seal stocks, and continue to make profit. It is comprised of nine chapters, the first and last chapters of which serve as introduction and conclusion. The study also includes eight appendices presenting tabled statistics, and a select bibliography. The appendices concern seal skin imports into London; vessel details at Puerto Soledad; the value and amount of seal products exported from the Falklands; Canadian sealing vessels entering Port Stanley; seal catch and oil yield in South Georgia; South Georgian seal catch summaries; South Georgian commercial catches by sealing division; and marine mammal products landed in the Newfoundland fisheries region.
Author : David Knight
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206186
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Voyaging in Strange Seas written by David Knight and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview had arrived, focusing now on observation, experiment, and mathematical reasoning. This engaging book takes us along on the great voyage of discovery that ushered in the modern age. David Knight, a distinguished historian of science, locates the Scientific Revolution in the great era of global oceanic voyages, which became both a spur to and a metaphor for scientific discovery. He introduces the well-known heroes of the story (Galileo, Newton, Linnaeus) as well as lesser-recognized officers of scientific societies, printers and booksellers who turned scientific discovery into public knowledge, and editors who invented the scientific journal. Knight looks at a striking array of topics, from better maps to more accurate clocks, from a boom in printing to medical advancements. He portrays science and religion as engaged with each other rather than in constant conflict; in fact, science was often perceived as a way to uncover and celebrate God’s mysteries and laws. Populated with interesting characters, enriched with fascinating anecdotes, and built upon an acute understanding of the era, this book tells a story as thrilling as any in human history.
Author : William E. Lenz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317946529
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of the Antarctic written by William E. Lenz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) to Antarctica, James Croxall Palmer's epic poem Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843), and its revision, The Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), and by locating these works within their cultural context, Lenz reveals the significance and changing meaning of exploration to emerging American concepts of nationhood. The volume also considers the tradition of American sea fiction in the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, arguing that for these writers the Antarctic was a locus of symbolic meaning while for Palmer it was a process of individual and collective perception. The 1868 version of the Palmer poem is attached here as an appendix. A useful bibliography follows that appendix.
Author : Sandhya Patel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865508
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Contact in Context written by Sandhya Patel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contact between cultures has been understood in various ways and this particular volume considers the European cultural, social, scientific, philosophical and political contexts framing encounter. All of the essays thus look at the different ways in which individuals and institutions work these contexts into their representations of contact settings. In Part 1, the conventional stance is adopted where encounter is understood as taking place elsewhere and not on European soil. The chapters examine contact far afield and focus on how public and private contexts act upon ensuing interpretations and representations of inter-cultural interaction. Part 2 considers ‘contact within’, positing inversed sites of encounter. The essays point to the arrival of these discovered peoples on European soil as the eras of exploration ushered in periods of settlement and extended colonisation. The paradigm of contact between Europeans and Others (and Other spaces) was thus displaced both figuratively and literally. Amongst the conduits for such representations were the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century European exhibitions or fairs. The studies here suggest that these encounters were also engineered by domestic contexts which gradually enclosed interaction within further, restrictive conceptual frameworks, not on islands and beaches, but in European towns and cities.
Author : Bernhard Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135940460
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Sea Changes written by Bernhard Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.
Author : Derek Howse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520306031
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Background to Discovery written by Derek Howse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime exploration and the political, economic, and scientific motives behind it. Writing essays on the literary and artistic response to the voyages as well, the contributors collectively provide a rich source for historians, geographers, and anyone interested in the history of voyage and travel. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Author : Mervyn McLean
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869402129
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Weavers of Song written by Mervyn McLean and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of Polynesian music illustrated by music examples and photographs.
Author : David Chittenden
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759115621
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Creating Connections written by David Chittenden and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science museums are in the business of making science accessible to the public—a public constantly bombarded with new information and research results. How the public understands this information will affect what they expect and take away from a museum's exhibits and programs. Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What are the opportunities and critical issues in PUR? What strategies are working and what are some pitfalls? What can be learned from the media's experiences with PUR? Creating Connections will be an invaluable resource for science museum professionals who want to guide their institutions and their visitors toward a new understanding of and appreciation for current research.
Author : Paula G. Rubel
Publisher : Development Resources Press
ISBN 13 : 0990633756
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Aliens on Our Shores written by Paula G. Rubel and published by Development Resources Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens on Our Shores is a deep dive into the first 250 years of contact between the peoples of New Ireland, Melanesia – egalitarian societies unfamiliar with capitalism -- and successive waves of European explorers, traders, plantation owners, missionaries, and eventual colonial conquerors. Includes bibliography, index.
Author : Michelle Hetherington
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642107319
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Cook & Omai written by Michelle Hetherington and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas draws on the Library's collections and the documentary record to explore a fascinating chapter in the history of the Pacific, and European concerns about the nature of humankind and the world as they saw it. The catalogue and exhibition provide insight into the legacy of Omai, caught, as he was, between two worlds.
Author : John Hawkesworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book An Account of the Voyages undertaken ... for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ... Taken from the third edition ... modified, etc. (Appendix. An Abstract of the Voyage round the World, performed by Lewis de Bougainville, etc.). written by John Hawkesworth and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
