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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book History of Maritime Discovery and Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368837257
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book History of Maritime Discovery and Adventure written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Frank Boott Goodrich
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Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book Man Upon the Sea written by Frank Boott Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142004838
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Author : James Burney
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Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea Or Pacific Ocean ...: 1620-1688 written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Stephen K. Stein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
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.
Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970359
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Sea and Civilization written by Lincoln Paine and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to aircraft carriers and container ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
Author : William Desborough Cooley
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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert D. Ballard
Publisher : National Geographic Society
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Adventures in Ocean Exploration written by Robert D. Ballard and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Project year 4.
Author : Charles Rathbone Low
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385468167
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Maritime Discovery. A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times written by Charles Rathbone Low and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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)
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.
Author : Frederick Whymper
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book THE SEA - Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril & Heroism written by Frederick Whymper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 1706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism" is an exciting review of the history of sea travels from the earliest times to the XIX century. It includes the first mentions of sea travel, the history of shipbuilding, mentions the greatest men who pursued geographical discoveries like Columbus and his contemporaries, and the deeds of pirates like Sir Francis Drake. The author revises the history of the most significant shipwrecks and concludes with poetry dedicated to sea and ship travel. The author spent his life traveling on a steamship and collected numerous stories and illustrations of interesting distant places. The book is the culmination of his lifetime interest in sea, travel, history, and art.
Author : J H Parry
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 0297865951
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The Age of Reconnaissance written by J H Parry and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry so aptly named it, was the period in which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the 'reconnaissance' was all but complete. This book is less concerned with the voyages of discovery themselves than with an analysis of the factors that made the voyages possible in the first place. Dr Parry examines the inducements - political, economic, religious - to overseas enterprises at the time, and analyses the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands. At the beginning of the period central to this book, the middle of the fifteenth century, the normal educated man believed that the Ancients were more civilized, more elegant, wiser and, except in religious matters, better informed than his contemporaries. But gradually as the reconnaissance proceeded, the European picture became fuller and more detailed and with it the idea of continually expanding knowledge became more familiar and the links between science and practical life became closer. The unprecedented power which it produced would eventually lead Europe from reconnaissance to worldwide conquest.
Author : David L Mearns
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1925576337
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Shipwreck Hunter written by David L Mearns and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Mearns, the man who discovered the wreck of HMAS Sydney, takes us on an extraordinary voyage through his amazing career as one of the world's most successful shipwreck hunters. 'The underwater worlds of past and present collide in the depths of the ocean in this gripping and suspenseful narrative by David Mearns, a true expert on the mysteries of the deep sea.' CLIVE CUSSLER David Mearns has found some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. His deep-water searches have solved the 66-year mystery of HMAS Sydney, discovered the final resting place of the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood and revealed the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur in the narrow underwater canyon that served as its grave. His painstaking historical detective work has led to the shallow reefs of a remote island that hid the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama's sixteenth century fleet. The Shipwreck Hunter is the compelling story of David's life and work on the seas, focusing on some of his most intriguing discoveries. It details the extraordinary techniques used, the research and the mid-ocean stamina and courage needed to find a wreck kilometres beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Part detective story, part history and part deep ocean adventure, The Shipwreck Hunter is a unique insight into a hidden, underwater world.
Author : Boston Public Library
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Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Index to the Catalogue of a Portion of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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