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Author: Mary T. Tardy
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Mary T. Tardy
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Author: ANZAAS (Association)
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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Author: Glyndwr Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300105681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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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a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives.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.
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Author: Annie Somers Gilchrist
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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