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Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages

Author : Robyn Mundy
Publisher : Kingfisher
ISBN 13 : 9780753465745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages written by Robyn Mundy and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a certain kind of adventurer to sail off into the unknown of the world's oceans, sailing by the stars, alone in the vastness of a life at sea. Join an accomplished sailor for the stories of five epic mariners who set off on some of the great ocean journeys ever undertaken. Learn the art and skill of sailing from great square-riggers to the smallest craft. Learn what it takes to survive at sea, and how great sailors must adapt to challenging conditions like unpredictable weather, physical hardship, sleep deprivation, and unforeseen perils. Find out what survival strategies succeeded, and which failed-with tragic results. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, posters and eye-popping gatefolds, this book is the perfect introduction to the incredible distances and epic challenges of a life at sea.

Epic Voyages

Author : Five Mile Press Pty Limited, The
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742485058
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Epic Voyages written by Five Mile Press Pty Limited, The and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how adventurous mariners used their skill and resourcefulness to adapt to challenging conditions - unpredictable weather, physical hardship, unforeseen perils. Find out which strategies and survival techniques succeeded and which failed, sometimes with tragic results. Explore the vast oceans and wild seas navigates by these intrepid sailors on their long, dangerous voyages.

A SPECK ON THE SEA

Author : William Longyard
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071460098
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book A SPECK ON THE SEA written by William Longyard and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-08-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping compendium of noteworthy small-boat voyages made over the centuries." --John Harland, author of Seamanship in the Age of Sail A Speck on the Sea chronicles the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest boats. These feats include: Diego Mendez's voyage to rescue Columbus William Okeley's escape from slavery in a folding rowboat Ernest Shackleton's death-cheating journeys And more

1606

Author : Evan McHugh
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868408668
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book 1606 written by Evan McHugh and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until 1606 the Great South Land was a mystery to Europeans. When Dutchman Willem Janszoon, captain of the Duyfken, landed at Cape York 400 years ago he thought he was in New Guinea. By the time Matthew Flinders' charts were published in 1814 Australia had emerged on the map and in name. This book tells the stories of the seafaring explorers, the shipwrecks, mutinies and daring escapes that came after Janszoon, including the voyages of Torres and La Perouse, Dampier, Cook and D'Entrecasteaux. These are tales of adventure, discovery and navigational triumph in the face of hardship, starvation and disaster at the far end of the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Journey Through Many Worlds

Author : Johan Dempers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781797033464
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Journey Through Many Worlds written by Johan Dempers and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey Through Many Worlds is a rare find amongst books of this genre. As the author states "...the actof putting it on paper resulted in an even greater discovery..." From the firsts paragraphs the reader isdrawn into this journey, and in the end you realise that you were made part of the journey, a participantthe silent observer. Being drawn into the journey exposes the reader to discover the personal traitssuch as resilience, commitment, agility and perseverance required to successfully overcome theadversity, to survive unplanned crisis's that unfolds as the adventurer keeps moving moves towards thejourney's end. An end that in some of the worlds leave the adventurer/traveler with permanent physicalscars that would raise the bar to achieve success in the further journeys. No two worlds can be morediverse than the Amazon and Iraq and yet the personal traits required remains unchanged.The unique writing style made me part of these journeys, but it shielded me from the effect andconsequences of them, made me part of the success without paying the price. In the end I experienced anew motivation and sharper focus on the personal traits required to successfully reach my ownobjectives as I venture on my selected journeys through the many worlds. This time there has been andwill be more scars, the price to pay will be for my own account and may be one day, I could be amongstthe "rare bread" of adventures, those who "appreciated and use the many opportunities that areoffered, that soon shall come to pass, that live for the moment but keeping the future in mind."As someone once wrote, I picked up the book and felts its weight and begin to read. I put it down and itis not same any more, it changed and because I have red it and I am not the same any more. Dr Louw Pieterse (PhD, DTh)

Ice Ship

Author : Charles W. Johnson
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686040
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Ice Ship written by Charles W. Johnson and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big questionÑwas the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to penetrate it all failed, often catastrophically. NorwayÕs charismatic scientist-explorer Fridtjof Nansen, convinced that it was a frozen ocean, intended to prove it in a novel if risky way: by building a ship capable of withstanding the ice, joining others on an expedition, then drifting wherever it took them, on a relentless one-way journey into discovery and fame . . . or oblivion. Ice Ship is the story of that extraordinary ship, the Fram, from conception to construction, through twenty years of three epic expeditions, to its final resting place as a museum. It is also the story of the extraordinary men who steered the Fram over the course of 84,000 miles: on a three-year, ice-bound drift, finding out what the Arctic really was; in a remarkable four-year exploration of unmapped lands in the vast Canadian Arctic; and on a twoÐyear voyage to Antarctica, where another famous Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, claimed the South Pole. Ice Ship will appeal to all those fascinated with polar exploration, maritime adventure, and wooden ships, and will captivate readers of such books as The Endurance, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Last Place on Earth. With more than 100 original photographs, the book brings the Fram to life and light.

Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera

Author : Wendy Heller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317082419
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera written by Wendy Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they were intended to be heard: there is something musical about Homer's use of language and a vivid quality to his images that transcends the written page to create a theatrical experience for the listener. Indeed, it is precisely the theatrical quality of the poems that would inspire later interpreters to cast the Odyssey and the Iliad in a host of other media-novels, plays, poems, paintings, and even that most elaborate of all art forms, opera, exemplified by no less a work than Monteverdi's Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria. In Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera, scholars in classics, drama, Italian literature, art history, and musicology explore the journey of Homer's Odyssey from ancient to modern times. The book traces the reception of the Odyssey though the Italian humanist sources—from Dante, Petrarch, and Ariosto—to the treatment of the tale not only by Monteverdi but also such composers as Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Gluck, and Alessandro Scarlatti, and the dramatic and poetic traditions thereafter by such modern writers as Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood.

Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus

Author : Mark Heerink
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004278656
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus written by Mark Heerink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet. A team of international specialists offers both an account of the state of the art and new insights.

The Voyages of Captain James Cook

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 0760351562
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Voyages of Captain James Cook written by James Cook and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever illustrated account of the explorer and cartographer’s epic eighteenth-century Pacific voyages, complete with excerpts from his journals. This is history’s greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage. His orders were to chart the path of Venus across the sun. That task completed, his ship, the HMS Endeavour, continued to comb the southern hemisphere for the imagined continent Terra Australis. The voyage lasted from 1768 to 1771, and upon Cook’s return to London, his journaled accounts of the expedition made him a celebrity. After that came two more voyages for Cook and his crew—followed by Cook’s murder by natives in Hawaii. The Voyages of Captain James Cook reveals Cook’s fascinating story through journal excerpts, illustrations, photography, and supplementary writings. During Cook’s career, he logged more than 200,000 miles—nearly the distance to the moon. And along the way, scientists and artists traveling with him documented exotic flora and fauna, untouched landscapes, indigenous peoples, and much more. In addition to the South Pacific, Cook’s voyages took him to South America, Antarctica, New Zealand, the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, the Arctic Circle, Siberia, the East Indies, and the Indian Ocean. When he set out in 1768, more than one-third of the globe was unmapped. By the time Cook died in 1779, he had created charts so accurate that some were used into the 1990s. The Voyages of Captain James Cook is a handsome illustrated edition of Cook’s selected writings spanning his Pacific voyages, ending in 1779 with the delivery of his salted scalp and hands to his surviving crewmembers. It’s an enthralling read for anyone who appreciates history, science, art, and classic adventure.

Journey Through Many Worlds

Author : Johan Dempers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781389754388
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Journey Through Many Worlds written by Johan Dempers and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating story which started 15 years ago when the author responded to a newspaper advertisement from one Joe Brooks, seeking a fellow adventurer to take part in what seemed to be a crazy venture: a 15,000 kilometer trip across the continent of South America-by pane, train, on foot and by canoe. Together, the two men travelled through the ancient ruins of long lost civilizations, over the snow-capped Andes Mountains, and into the rainforests of the Amazon. Their six-month journey into the unknown took the two through some of the remotest and wilders regions on the face of our planet. Their capture by Indians deep in the jungle of Brazil-and their subsequent release after a police raid on the Indian village-made international headlines, but that was only a part of the author's incredible adventures. This autobiographical work will also take you on an action-packed trip to the war-torn regions of Angola, Iraq, and Afghanistan-but ultimately it is a story about extraordinary events happening to ordinary people. It is a Journey through Many Worlds: but, wait, is isn't over yet.... "We seldom hear or read about men who still fit the mound of 'adventurers.' I am proud to know one such man and to have shared time working with him. As a man, he has played a part in many great adventures and travels across the globe-from the desperate and bloody battlefields of Angola to the desolation and dangerous fields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite severe injuries, he has ever abandoned his love and passion for adventure and the Amazon trip is a perfect example of a man with drive and gumption-a man who is not put off by the unknown."-Eeben Barlow, ex-SADF Lieutenant-Colonel and founder of Executive Outcomes.

Secret Voyages to the New World

Author : Gunnar Thompson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557231655
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Secret Voyages to the New World written by Gunnar Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best introduction to multiethnic New World Discovery before Columbus. Nine true adventures featuring Hatshepsut, King Solomon, Xu Fu, Marco Polo, Nicholas of Lynn, Zheng He, Martin Behaim, Amerigo Vespucci, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth, and Francis Drake. Includes first maize (Indian corn) in Egypt, early maps of America before Columbus, Roman Florida, Albertin di Virga's 1414 map of Peru and North America, ancient artifacts and faces of Old World voyagers in Mexico and Peru, and Francis Drake's amazing "clock map." Excellent coffee-table book; great for adults and young readers. Beautifully illustrated; excellent index and bibliography. A fun read that is also packed with new information about secret voyages, forbidden lands, and enigmas the pros have missed.

Voyage of the Liberdade (Hardcover)

Author : Captain Joshua Slocum
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781387900923
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Liberdade (Hardcover) written by Captain Joshua Slocum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Joshua Slocum, an experienced mariner, tells the thrilling tale of the Liberdade and the great journey it made from South America, through the Caribbean, and onto the United States. When this book first appeared in 1890, it received wide praise for authentically capturing the spirit of naval adventure and human resourcefulness. At a time when ordinary sailing boats were fast being obsoleted by faster vessels powered by steam engines, Captain Slocum's recollections are testament that sea voyages were as exciting as they ever were. The Liberdade was constructed from materials salvaged from the locality of Brazil, where Slocum was stranded at the time. The ship received its name as one day after its launch, on May 14th 1888, slavery was abolished by the Brazilian government. The fifty-five day voyage of Joshua Slocum and his family back to the United States is chronicled in this book, with the high and low points of their epic adventure mentioned.

Captain Cook's Epic Voyage

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369338433
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Captain Cook's Epic Voyage written by Geoffrey Blainey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent. 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of that voyage, and Cook's 'discovery' of Australia. Captain Cook's Epic Voyage reveals the hardships and adventure of this remarkable quest, and the euphoria of discovering new lands. Drawing from his previous book, Sea of Dangers, in Captain Cook's Epic Voyage Professor Geoffrey Blainey takes readers once again on a vivid journey through history, challenging accepted views and the intersection of myth, science and exploration.

Madness, Betrayal and the Lash

Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781926685717
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Madness, Betrayal and the Lash written by Stephen R. Bown and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition — and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history’s greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken. But just two years after returning to Britain, the 40-year-old Vancouver, hounded by critics, shamed by public humiliation at the fists of an aristocratic sailor he had flogged, and blacklisted because of a perceived failure to follow the Admiralty’s directives, died in poverty, nearly forgotten. In this riveting and perceptive biography, historian Stephen Bown delves into the events that destroyed Vancouver’s reputation and restores his position as one of the greatest explorers of the Age of Discovery.

Epic Voyages

Author : Bear Grylls
Publisher : Weldon Owen
ISBN 13 : 9781786961020
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Epic Voyages written by Bear Grylls and published by Weldon Owen. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Bear says fun facts & tips; 2. Amazing photography; 3. The Great Outdoors

The Best Australian Stories 2013

Author : Kim Scott
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231223
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Best Australian Stories 2013 written by Kim Scott and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Best Australian Stories 2013, Kim Scott selects the year’s most outstanding short fiction. Featuring established favourites alongside exciting new voices, this diverse collection is a perfect companion for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia’s best contemporary writing. Previous contributors include Kate Grenville, Nam Le, David Malouf, Mandy Sayer, DBC Pierre, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Goldsworthy, Marion Halligan, Venero Armanno, Sophie Cunningham, Romy Ash and many more.

Ferdinand Magellan

Author : Susan Meyer
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499438044
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Ferdinand Magellan written by Susan Meyer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, he perished before the trip was completed. Readers will learn about the challenges that his expedition faced on its long, arduous journey, as well as how this Portuguese explorer ended up leading a Spanish expedition in the first place. Other highlights include his travels as a young man, the discovery of the strait now named after him, and his partnership with astronomer Rui Falerio. This engrossing account of Magellan’s life and fateful last voyage concludes with a consideration of Magellan’s legacy.