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Alien Ocean

Author : Stefan Helmreich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520942604
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Alien Ocean written by Stefan Helmreich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in Monterey Bay, Hawai'i, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Sargasso Sea and at undersea volcanoes in the eastern Pacific, Stefan Helmreich charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in astonishingly extreme conditions, such microbes have become key figures in scientific and public debates about the origin of life, climate change, biotechnology, and even the possibility of life on other worlds.

Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137305894
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 written by Bronwen Douglas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).

Maiden Voyages

Author : Siân Evans
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250246474
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Maiden Voyages written by Siân Evans and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Siân Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women’s lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. They were celebrities, migrants and millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untold—until now. Maiden Voyages is a fascinating portrait of the era, the ships themselves, and these women as they crossed the Atlantic. The ocean liner was a microcosm of contemporary society, divided by class: from the luxury of the upper deck, playground for the rich and famous, to the cramped conditions of steerage or third class travel. In first class you’ll meet A-listers like Marlene Dietrich, Wallis Simpson, and Josephine Baker; the second class carried a new generation of professional and independent women, like pioneering interior designer Sibyl Colefax. Down in steerage, you’ll follow the journey of émigré Maria Riffelmacher as she escapes poverty in Europe. Bustling between decks is a crew of female workers, including Violet “The Unsinkable Stewardess” Jessop, who survived the Titanic disaster. Entertaining and informative, Maiden Voyages captures the golden age of ocean liners through the stories of the women whose transatlantic journeys changed the shape of society on both sides of the globe.

Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793

Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : New York : A.S. Barnes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by New York : A.S. Barnes. This book was released on 1903 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean

Author : Alexander Dalrymple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean written by Alexander Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Swell

Author : LIZ. CLARK
Publisher : Patagonia
ISBN 13 : 9781952338229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Swell written by LIZ. CLARK and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seven Voyages

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1626721238
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Seven Voyages written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen and author Sara Fray comes this immaculately researched history for young readers detailing the life of Zheng He, his complex and enduring friendship with his emperor, and the epic Seven Voyages he led that would establish China as a global power. 1405. The central coast of China. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian Oceans, traveling as far as the east coast of Africa, expanding Chinese power globally, warring with pirates, and capturing enemies along the way in the name of his emperor, Zhu Di. But this giant figure was not always at the helm of a ship.

Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-west Coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &c. ...

Author : Edmund Fanning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-west Coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &c. ... written by Edmund Fanning and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great South Sea

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105681
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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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.

Atlantic Voyages

Author : John McAleer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894749
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Voyages written by John McAleer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many thousands of Company voyages that brought Europeans into contact with Asian countries and cultures, as well as numerous people and places along the way. Atlantic Voyages tells the story of travellers like Mackrabie as they navigated the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, reflecting on who and what they had left behind in Europe, looking forward to new challenges in Asia, and evaluating the sights and smells, sounds and tastes, hopes and expectations, fears and regrets, that regaled their senses and played on their minds as they sailed along the way. It charts the tension between tedium and terror on the one hand, and exhilaration and excitement on the other, attempting to understand the maritime space of the Atlantic as it was experienced by the people who traversed its waters. The lives of the people carried by East Indiamen were deeply affected by their Atlantic experiences. They confronted the reality of shipboard life: its seasickness and boredom, its cramped living conditions, its questionable dining fare, and its severely restricted privacy. They acclimatised to the rhythms of the ocean and the vicissitudes of the weather. They encountered rites of passage and ceremonies of initiation on the high seas. They prepared themselves for cultural disorientation and a host of unusual sights and sensations. And they wondered at the extraordinary beauty of the elements around them - the sea, the sky, the islands - and the strangeness of their inhabitants, human and animal alike. The ship's passage played a crucial role in shaping the responses and experiences of those individuals surrounded by its wooden walls. Their words bring to life this maritime journey, illuminate the experiences of the people who undertook it, and contribute to our understanding of the place of the Atlantic Ocean in wider histories of the East India Company and the British Empire in this period.

A Narrative of Four Voyages

Author : Benjamin Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean, from the Year 1822 to 1831 ...

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Author : Benjamin Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean, from the Year 1822 to 1831 ... written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Captain Cook's Three Voyages to the Pacific Ocean

Author : James Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Captain Cook's Three Voyages to the Pacific Ocean written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Voyages of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Author : Charles Paul MacKie
Publisher : Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Last Voyages of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea written by Charles Paul MacKie and published by Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company. This book was released on 1892 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voyages Through the Islands of the Indian Ocean

Author : Voyages
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Voyages Through the Islands of the Indian Ocean written by Voyages and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean

Author : Alexander Dalrymple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean written by Alexander Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII

Author : R.A. Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317039513
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII written by R.A. Skelton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and their English contemporaries were made, for the most part, in search of a westward passage to Asia, and they resulted in the revelation of North America. The evidences are printed here, with an indication of their origins. Some are obscure in meaning, incomplete in statement, or mutually contradictory; and we are left with the certainty that important documents have existed or may now exist, which are still unknown. Dr Williamson interprets the evidence we have. Parts of his undertaking are in the nature of detective work and he does not claim that his solutions are final, which would be impossible in the face of new evidence that may at any time occur. Cabot study is a continuing mental adventure. The maps are an important category of the evidence. Mr R.A. Skelton of the British Museum has contributed a treatment of them, authoritative in its explanations, and a valuable admonition on what can and cannot be expected of the material. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1962.