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Book Synopsis The Voyage of the Sanderling by : Roger D. Stone
Download or read book The Voyage of the Sanderling written by Roger D. Stone and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is at once a gripping nautical adventure and a thorough environmental study, Roger Stone describes his 8,000-mile sail from Maine to Brazil. His aim: to assess the damage done to the Atlantic Coast since the earliest navigators described it in their journals--and to highlight efforts being made to restore it. 70 photographs and maps.
Download or read book Voyage of Sanderling written by R O Stone and published by . This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671 by : Richard J. Campbell
Download or read book The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671 written by Richard J. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript ‘Booke’, which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subsequently entered his journals of his voyages and correspondence relating to them. The ‘Booke’ contains his own fair copy of the journal of his voyage through the Strait of Magellan and north to Valdivia in the Sweepstakes, 1669-1671. This is published here for the first time, together with an incomplete and somewhat different copy of the journal, held in the Bodleian Library, which was made for him by a clerk after he returned to England, and which was partially published in 1694. Both versions of the journal together with previously unpublished records made by members of his company, as well as reproductions of the charts which Narbrough relied on and those he produced, are printed here. Narbrough's mission was to carry out a passenger who referred to himself as Don Carlos Enriques and who claimed to have expert knowledge of Peru and Chile, and contacts with disaffected colonists and indigenous peoples. Don Carlos's written proposals to King Charles II and his ministers, only recently discovered, are here translated from Spanish, and give a clear sense of the character, if not the real identity, of an adventurer, who gave the authorities in England, Chile and Peru totally different and changing stories about his status and the purpose of the voyage. Narbrough's conduct of the voyage has been criticized by later authors who have focussed on his inability recover four of his ship’s company from detention in Valdivia and the lack of tangible results, in the form of trade or contacts with indigenous groups. The more complete story provided here shows that Narbrough carried out his ambiguous orders to the letter. His chart of the Strait of Magellan remained the principal chart of the area for the next century. King Charles II and James, Duke of York, both recognized his abilities. He was rapidly re-employed in naval service, subsequently knighted, and rose to become a Commissioner of the Navy and Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean.
Book Synopsis The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen by : Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
Download or read book The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen written by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen is a collection of essays and articles which describe rarely written-about Asian people, places and events.
Download or read book Cassell's Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pecked to Death by Ducks by : Tim Cahill
Download or read book Pecked to Death by Ducks written by Tim Cahill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.
Book Synopsis Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North - West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Performed in the Years 1819 - 1820 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Grupper (etc.) by : William Edward Parry
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North - West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Performed in the Years 1819 - 1820 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Grupper (etc.) written by William Edward Parry and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falling Off the Map written by Pico Iyer and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.
Book Synopsis The Voyage of the Sanderling by : Roger D. Stone
Download or read book The Voyage of the Sanderling written by Roger D. Stone and published by . This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles by : Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
Download or read book An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles written by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2012 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue, part biography, this book charts the discoveries of the famous naturalist/explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913).
Book Synopsis Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land by : International Polar Expedition
Download or read book Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land written by International Polar Expedition and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mightier Hudson written by Roger D. Stone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the odds, the Hudson Valley has cleaned up its act and rediscovered its soul. In this well researched and passionate treatise on the much celebrated but long abused Hudson River, author Roger Stone describes how protecting New York City’s drinking water supply, making innovative efforts to safeguard views and open space, and reconnecting communities with long abandoned stretches of priceless shoreline have combined to bring about a new age of spirited restoration in a region that long seemed condemned to cultural and environmental mediocrity. Stone links disparate historical, cultural, political, and environmental threads to clearly show the multiple forces that have made this turnaround happen, a vivid example of new ideas and values for a nation struggling to counter devastating economic and environmental effects of misusing the landscape. The extraordinary revival of the majestic Hudson River estuary and its surrounding areas, even in communities where hope was long in short supply, shows remarkable results when it’s done right.
Book Synopsis Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit by : Roger D. Stone
Download or read book Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit written by Roger D. Stone and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals. In their travels to research this book, the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests. With engagingly written case studies from Thailand's Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines, from Indonesia, India, and Africa to Brazil, Mexico, and Central America, they introduce us to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources. Contrasting community-based efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts, they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestland. This book argues we are paying a terrible price--politically, economically, and environmentally--for allowing tropical forests to be stripped. Community-based forestry is no panacea, but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique.
Book Synopsis Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific by : Sir William Edward Parry
Download or read book Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific written by Sir William Edward Parry and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishman William Edward Parry's journal of his voyage for the discovery of a North-west passage through the Canadian Arctic in the years 1819-'20 aboard the ships Hecla and Griper. Includes official instructions to Parry from the British government on undertaking the expedition, details of land and sea exploration, encounters with Inuit (Eskimos) and fauna in the region, lists of supplies, chronometric, magnetic and lunar observations, numerous plates and maps, glossary of technical terms.
Book Synopsis A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage, in the Years 1819-20 by : Sir William Edward Parry
Download or read book A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage, in the Years 1819-20 written by Sir William Edward Parry and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1824 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmental Literature by : Patricia D. Netzley
Download or read book Environmental Literature written by Patricia D. Netzley and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1999-12-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Environmental Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Authors, and Themes examines the works of explorers, scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, conservationists, and nature writers as well as novelists and poets. Each entry includes end-of-entry references and cross-references to relevant works. A bibliography and comprehensive index round out this handy encyclopedia."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay by : Adolphus Washington Greely
Download or read book Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay written by Adolphus Washington Greely and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
