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Travels into Print

Author : Innes M. Keighren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623357X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Travels into Print written by Innes M. Keighren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry—products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating new geographical truths. In an age of global wonder and of expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and the firm’s correspondence with its many authors—a list that included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott—Travels into Print considers how journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony and to secure their personal credibility. This fascinating study in historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical authorship—a journey bound together by the unifying force of a world-leading publisher.

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages

Author : John Block Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113559094X
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages written by John Block Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584245
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

The Travels of Francisco de Coronado

Author : Deborah Crisfield
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780739814932
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Francisco de Coronado written by Deborah Crisfield and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the biography of the Spanish explorer who visited the Southwestern United States.

The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780739814840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Ferdinand Magellan written by Joanne Mattern and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the daring Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.

The Sea in World History [2 volumes]

Author : Stephen K. Stein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Sea in World History [2 volumes] written by Stephen K. Stein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and maritime activity across history, from travel and food production to commerce and conquest. In all eras, water transport has served as the cheapest and most efficient means of moving cargo and people over any significant distance. Only relatively recently have railroads and aircraft provided an alternative. Most of the world's bulk goods continue to travel primarily by ship over water. Even today, 95 percent of the cargo that enters and leaves the United States does so by ship. Similarly, people around the world rely on the sea for food, and in recent years, the sea has become an important source of oil and other resources, with the longterm effects of our continuing efforts to extract resources from the sea further highlighting environmental concerns that range from pollution to the exhaustion of fish stocks. This chronologically organized two-volume reference addresses the history of the sea, beginning with ancient civilizations (4000 to 1000 BCE) and ending with the modern era (1945 to the present day). Each of the eight chapters is further broken down into sections that focus on specific nations or regions, offering detailed descriptions of that area of the world and shorter entries on specific topics, individuals, and events. The book spans maritime history, covering major seafaring peoples and nations; famous explorers, travelers, and commanders; events, battles, and wars; key technologies, including famous ships; important processes and ongoing events, such as piracy and the slave trade; and more. Readers will benefit from dozens of primary source documents—ranging from ancient Egyptian tales of seafaring to texts by renowned travelers like Marco Polo, Zheng He, and Ibn Battuta—that provide firsthand accounts from the age of discovery as well as accounts of battle from World War I and II and more modern accounts of the sea.

The Travels of John and Sebastian Cabot

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780739814925
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of John and Sebastian Cabot written by Joanne Mattern and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with John Cabot as he sails on several voyages to Canada.

Journey to the Ants

Author : Bert Hölldobler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674254589
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Ants written by Bert Hölldobler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-21 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects’ evolutionary achievement.

Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)

Author : William Gifford Palgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63) written by William Gifford Palgrave and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco

Author : Joseph Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco written by Joseph Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In introducing this book to the reader, little need be said. It is nothing more than what it pretends to be - a Personal Narrative of Exploration. It does not claim to be a book on Morocco, and consequently may appear in many respects to be very defective. To write such a book was originally my ambition when I turned my attention to that remarkable country, but the abrupt and premature conclusion of my travels has made me perforce alter my intention, and devote myself to recording only something of what we saw and experienced in the parts in which we travelled. It has, moreover, been as much my object to sketch pictures as to chronicle facts. For the same reason this book has been made a personal narrative, with its inevitable frequent use of the first person singular or plural"--Preface.

Japan in Our Day

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan in Our Day written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peru

Author : Ephraim George Squier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Peru written by Ephraim George Squier and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rucksack Man

Author : Sebastian Snow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Rucksack Man written by Sebastian Snow and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on Panama.

Day of the Vikings

Author : J. F. Penn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781499356175
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Day of the Vikings written by J. F. Penn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ritual murder on a remote island under the shifting skies of the aurora borealis. A staff of power that can summon Ragnarok, the Viking apocalypse. When Neo-Viking terrorists invade the British Museum in London to reclaim the staff of Skara Brae, ARKANE agent Dr. Morgan Sierra is trapped in the building along with hostages under mortal threat. As the slaughter begins, Morgan works alongside psychic Blake Daniel to discern the past of the staff, dating back to islands invaded by the Vikings generations ago. Can Morgan and Blake uncover the truth before Ragnarok is unleashed, consuming all in its wake? Day of the Vikings is a fast-paced, action adventure thriller set in the British Museum, the British Library and the islands of Orkney, Lindisfarne and Iona ... features Dr. Morgan Sierra from the ARKANE thrillers, and Blake Daniel from the London Mysteries, but it is also a stand-alone novella that can be read and enjoyed separately"--Publisher's description.

Exploration Fawcett

Author : Percy Harrison Fawcett
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781842124680
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Exploration Fawcett written by Percy Harrison Fawcett and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett's ten years of travels in forests and death-filled rivers in search of a secret city was compiled from manuscripts, letters and logbooks by his son. ' The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of today. In 1925 Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a lost city; he had set out with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination 'Z', never to be heard of again. His younger son, Brian Fawcett, has compiled this book from letters and records left by his father whose last written words to his wife were: 'You need have no fear of any failure...' Fawcett had tried to find lost cities for ten years: ' That the cities exist I know'. 'a book of great power....should be read by everyone' Daily Telegraph

Image and Exploration

Author : Olivier Loiseaux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783791385921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Image and Exploration written by Olivier Loiseaux and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the world through some of the earliest travel photographs ever taken in this unrivaled collection of images that capture the excitement of travel and chart the evolution of photography. In the second half of the 19th century, unprecedented advances in technology resulted in the collision of travel and photography. Explorers were able to document their journeys, hauling enormous amounts of equipment over arduous terrain. The results were breathtaking. This collection of photographs takes readers on a historic global tour that includes five continents and offers a visible record of worlds long-since vanished. Beginning in North Africa amid the pyramids and along the Nile, this book takes readers down through the Sahara to South Africa via Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar. The journey continues from South to North America, capturing images of the tribes near Cape Horn in Patagonia, an expedition down the Amazon River, the Panama Canal, Yellowstone Park, trains in New York City, and the Inuit tribes of Canada. The journey across Europe goes from Cologne Cathedral, over the Alps, down to Naples, via the Balkans through to the Ottoman Empire. The book concludes with images from Persia to Mongolia, along with Japan, India, Java, and ending in Australia. The 230 mostly duotone images include the works of William Henry Jackson, Felice Beato, Timothy O'Sullivan, Linnaeus Tripe, Samuel Bourne, and many others. Accompanied by expert commentary, these images shed invaluable light on the ways Western societies confronted and reimagined the world beyond their borders.

Explorations in the Icy North

Author : Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780822946595
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in the Icy North written by Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated experiments and observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating of scientific knowledge. At the same time, changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of natural phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identities, and international collaborations of the IPY. Through a focused study of travel narratives in the British, Danish, Canadian, and American contexts, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund uncovers not only the transnational nature of Arctic exploration, but also how the publication and reception of literature about it shaped an extreme environment, its explorers, and their scientific practices. She reveals how, far beyond the metropole--in the vast area we understand today as the North American and Greenlandic Arctic--explorations and the narratives that followed ultimately influenced the production of field science in the nineteenth century.