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Book Synopsis Discoverers and Explorers by : Edward R. Shaw
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward R. Shaw and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discoverers and Explorers is a book by Edward R. Shaw. It provides an overview of past explorations and discoveries, made by some of the most influential explorers in European history.
Book Synopsis World Explorers And Discoverers by : Richard E. Bohlander
Download or read book World Explorers And Discoverers written by Richard E. Bohlander and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-03-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pre-Christianity to the 20th century, this reference work provides portraits of over 275 of the world's explorers, geographers, chroniclers and inventors. Each profile details the subject's life, personality, adventures, achievements, and the controversies, if any, surrounding the discovery.
Book Synopsis Lives of the Explorers by : Kathleen Krull
Download or read book Lives of the Explorers written by Kathleen Krull and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the real lives of the daring and adventurous people who have sailed the seas, explored new worlds, and rocketed into space . . . You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into outer space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers as both world-changers and real people. The entertaining style and solid research of this series of biographies have made it a favorite with families and educators for twenty years. This new volume takes readers through the centuries and across the globe, profiling the men and women whose curiosity and courage have led them to discover our world. Includes color illustrations and maps “Readers will enjoy delving into the exploits of intrepid explorers across time, and, literally, space.” —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers by : Wayne Franklin
Download or read book Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers written by Wayne Franklin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
Book Synopsis Explorers and Discoverers of the World by : Daniel B. Baker
Download or read book Explorers and Discoverers of the World written by Daniel B. Baker and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 322 men and women whose journeys shaped the modern world.
Book Synopsis Discoverers and Explorers (1900) by : Edward Richard Shaw
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers (1900) written by Edward Richard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis The Discoverers by : Daniel J. Boorstin
Download or read book The Discoverers written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Book Synopsis Discoverers and Explorers by : Edward R. Shaw
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward R. Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw
Book Synopsis Discoverers and Explorers by : Edward Richard Shaw
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward Richard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Exploration and Empire by : William H. Goetzmann
Download or read book Exploration and Empire written by William H. Goetzmann and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.
Book Synopsis Discoverers and Explorers by : Edward Shaw
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by Edward Shaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketch of the remarkable discoveries and explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. Originally released in 1899.
Book Synopsis Discoverers and Explorers by : R. Edward Shaw
Download or read book Discoverers and Explorers written by R. Edward Shaw and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America by : Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
Download or read book Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies concentrating on the major discoveries of sixteen explorers including Leif Ericson, Hernando Cortés, Giovanni Verrazano, Father Marquette, and Robert Peary.
Download or read book The Discoverers written by Helen Delpar and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged articles contain biographical information about explorers. Includes articles about geographical knowledge and concepts of ancient and medieval worlds with emphasis on the 15th century to present.
Book Synopsis The Alchemy of Conquest by : Ralph Bauer
Download or read book The Alchemy of Conquest written by Ralph Bauer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period. As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.
Book Synopsis Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America by : Charles H. L. Johnston
Download or read book Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America written by Charles H. L. Johnston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Famous Discoverers and Explorers of America by Charles H. L. Johnston
Download or read book Explorers of the Nile written by Tim Jeal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “highly enjoyable” account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile (The Washington Post). Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet’s most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Samuel Baker, Florence von Sass, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in the fierce competition. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped “Dark Continent,” its jungle deprivations, and the courage—as well as malicious tactics—of the explorers. On multiple forays launched into east and central Africa, the travelers passed through almost impenetrable terrain and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, paralysis, malaria, deep spear wounds, and even death. They discovered Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail—and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan. “A fabulous story…old-fashioned epic adventure.”—The Sunday Times "Superb narrative…a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the internal dynamics of modern state-building in central Africa.”—Booklist
