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Vuelta

Author : Andrés Reséndez
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328515974
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Vuelta written by Andrés Reséndez and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses spared. Spain, plotting to break Portugal's monopoly trade with the fabled Orient, set sail from a hidden Mexican port to cross the Pacific--and then, critically, to attempt the never-before-accomplished return, the vuelta. Four ships set out from Navidad, each one carrying a dream team of navigators. The smallest ship, guided by seaman Lope Martín, a mulatto who had risen through the ranks to become one of the most qualified pilots of the era, soon pulled far ahead and became mysteriously lost from the fleet. It was the beginning of a voyage of epic scope, featuring mutiny, murderous encounters with Pacific islanders, astonishing physical hardships--and at last a triumphant return to the New World. But the pilot of the fleet's flagship, the Augustine friar mariner Andrés de Urdaneta, later caught up with Martín to achieve the vuelta as well. It was he who now basked in glory, while Lope Martín was secretly sentenced to be hanged by the Spanish crown as repayment for his services. Acclaimed historian Andrés Reséndez, through brilliant scholarship and riveting storytelling--including an astonishing outcome for the resilient Lope Martín--sets the record straight.

Pacific Discovery

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Discovery written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pacific Islands

Author : Paul Dichter
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1541532589
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Islands written by Paul Dichter and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Pacific Islands! Join Moana, her friends, and her family as you explore the history, culture, and stories of these great islands.

William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798

Author : Andrew David
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1134767501
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798 written by Andrew David and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.

Pacific Exploration

Author : Nigel Rigby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472957741
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Exploration written by Nigel Rigby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands – and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. His voyages were among the first to take civilian scientists, notably Sir Joseph Banks, and they revealed to European eyes the mysterious and exotic lands, peoples, flora and fauna of the Pacific, never before seen. But while Cook understandably dominates the story of 18th-century Pacific exploration, the achievements of those who followed him on many voyages of science and exploration into the Pacific have been neglected and deprived of the greater attention they deserve. Correcting this imbalance, Pacific Exploration explores the European voyages that continued Cook's work not only of charting but also starting to exploit and control the Pacific. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, Malaspina, Lapérouse and Arthur Phillip, span a period that saw Britain becoming the world's leading maritime power, a situation well in place by the time that Charles Darwin's voyage in Fitzroy's Beagle laid the basis of even greater understanding of the development of life on earth. Recounting and illustrating these achievements and legacies using fascinating text and beautiful illustrations and artworks from the period, this book explores topics of scientific discovery, engagement with indigenous peoples, the use of shipboard artists and scientists, the growing professionalism of the hydrographic service, the vessels used and the colonial, commercial and imperial contexts of the voyages.

Chronological List of the Officers Conducting British Maritime Discoveries and Surveys

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Chronological List of the Officers Conducting British Maritime Discoveries and Surveys written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean

Author : George Vancouver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean written by George Vancouver and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discoveries and Acquisitions in the Pacific

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Discoveries and Acquisitions in the Pacific written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains excerpts from treaty between China and Japan.

A History of Geographical Discovery

Author : Edward Heawood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107600499
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A History of Geographical Discovery written by Edward Heawood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1912 volume calls for a revision of the view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had relatively few 'Great Geographic Discoveries'. Accordingly, this work brings together previously isolated narratives on geographic discovery and gives much needed context to events and discoveries that had often been treated as separate phenomena.

To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey

Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317010027
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey written by Barry M. Gough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the Northwest Passage in the history of European and especially British expansion is well known. In the 40-year interlude of peace between Waterloo and the Crimean War, Britain could direct, with ease, a small portion of her fleet to polar discovery, and, by doing so, keep her Russian rival at bay, provide some employment and training for her officers, and contribute to the ends of science. Peard's journal of the voyage of Captain William Beechey , RN, and HMS Blossom to the Pacific and Arctic in 1825-8 is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook, Vancouver and Broughton. The Blossom made her way via Cape Horn to the Pacific, called at various places within the Pacific rim, and searched in vain for the expeditions of Captain William Edward Parry and John Franklin expected at the Bering Strait. George Peard, the first lieutenant of the Blossom, gives detailed descriptions of the places visited and the inhabitants, among them Pitcairn Island and the Gambier, Tahitian and Hawaiian groups. No less valuable are his accounts of Kamchatka, California, the Northwestern extremity of North America, and various parts of South America. Peard had an inquisitive, scientific mind, and he wrote a clear discursive narrative which shows that British exploration in the early Pax Britannica bore many fruits - scientific, commercial and strategic. It also showed that the Northwest passage had again eluded the British, in spite of the careful planning of the Admiralty, the Colonial office and the Hudson's Bay Company and the painstaking execution of orders by such naval officers as Parry, Franklin, Beechey and Peard himself Two of the plates are now printed at the end of the book.

Culture Contact in the Pacific

Author : Max Quanchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521422840
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Culture Contact in the Pacific written by Max Quanchi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have brought together a collection of works from specialists in Pacific History from across Australia and throughout the Pacific. The individual contributions were specifically written to meet the needs of senior history courses in Australia. Max Quanchi and Ron Adams are well-known educationists who have specialised in the pacific. They have extensively travelled and studied in the Pacific and have spent many years teaching history to secondary and fertiary students. The result is an authoritative text for all senior History and Australian Studies students who need to understand the Pacific region.

Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805

Author : Stephen W. Haycox
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806850
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805 written by Stephen W. Haycox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saluting an era of adventure and knowledge seeking, fifteen original essays consider the motivations of European explorers of the Pacific, the science and technology of 18th-century exploration, and the significance of Spanish, French, and British voyages. Among the topics discussed are the quest by enlightenment scientists for new species of plant and animal life, and their fascination with Native cultures; advances in shipbuilding, navigation, medicine, and diet that made extended voyages possible; and the lasting significance of the explorers’ collections, artworks, and journals.

Early Mapping of the Pacific

Author : Thomas Suarez
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906974
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Early Mapping of the Pacific written by Thomas Suarez and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of the Pacific follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in the Pacific Ocean. It covers the history of ocean exploration from 16th century Portuguese mariners to 20th century explorers and includes a cornucopia of rare and beautiful maps of the Pacific Ocean, in particular, of Hawaii, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand, among other Pacific Islands and territories. Early Mapping of the Pacific traces the exploration and charting of the great ocean through cartography, following the story from classical times through the turn of the twentieth century, telling the tales of seafarers who ventured eastward from Asia and were the Pacific's greatest explorers. Chapters include: The Pacific Islands and Their People Mariners, Mapmakers and the Great Ocean The Pacific Evolves after Magellan In the Wake of the Solomon Islands Earliest Mapping of Australia and New Zealand The Age of Enlightenment The Three Voyages of James Cook The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii Micronesia, the Elusive Isles Surveyors, Whalers and Missionaries

Background to Discovery

Author : Derek Howse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520311051
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Background to Discovery written by Derek Howse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 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.

California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number of Exhibits: 1

The Exploration of Australasia and the Pacific

Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433986191
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Exploration of Australasia and the Pacific written by Tim Cooke and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe’s search for better trade routes led to explorers stumbling on an entire continent. Readers will learn how humanity pushed to the edges of the Earth in the quest for knowledge of the Pacific. Readers will learn the exploits of famous explorers such as James Cook and Friedrich Leichhardt while full-color photographs show the landscape in stunning detail. Fact boxes add depth to every expedition and journey, while glossary terms and further information give readers an in-depth examination of this exciting topic.

Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

Author : John Gascoigne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107729017
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment written by John Gascoigne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the promotion of trade and the acquisition of new knowledge. This book surveys the consequent encounters between European expansionism and the peoples of the Pacific. John Gascoigne weaves together the stories of British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian voyages to destinations throughout the Pacific region. In a lively and lucid style, he brings to life the idealism, adventures and frustrations of a colourful cast of historical figures. Drawing upon a range of fields, he explores the complexities of the relationships between European and Pacific peoples. Richly illustrated with historical images and maps, this seminal work provides new perspectives on the significance of European contact with the Pacific in the Enlightenment.