Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Exploration of the World: The great navigators of the eighteenth century
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Exploration of the World: The great navigators of the eighteenth century
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: New York, Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732623882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732623882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The Exploration of the World
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
ISBN: 9780898755237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
In this chief of his works, Jules Verne has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventures of which we have any written record - to give the history, "from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley," of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most thrilling episodes in the history of human enterprise. In short, Jules Verne has chosen for his most important book the only subject which he could make surpass his own vivid and realistic stories in absorbing interest; to the treatment of such material he brings all the dash and vivid picturesqueness of his own creations, and it may be imagined that he makes a book worth reading.The plan of the work is so valuable that it is a matter for surprise, that such a history has never been undertaken before. To trace connectedly the progress of discovery as Jules Verne does, from the time when the world was a very small circle indeed, surrounded by the densest of outer darkness, and when the Cartagenian navigators ventured timidly out of the Mediterranean -- is to gain an altogether new idea of the daring and skill that has been expended in this one direction. It is a worthy subject for the most ambitious work of such a writer.Verne obtained all information for the book from the original documents.''This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world.'' Jules Verne
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
ISBN: 9780898755237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
In this chief of his works, Jules Verne has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventures of which we have any written record - to give the history, "from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley," of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most thrilling episodes in the history of human enterprise. In short, Jules Verne has chosen for his most important book the only subject which he could make surpass his own vivid and realistic stories in absorbing interest; to the treatment of such material he brings all the dash and vivid picturesqueness of his own creations, and it may be imagined that he makes a book worth reading.The plan of the work is so valuable that it is a matter for surprise, that such a history has never been undertaken before. To trace connectedly the progress of discovery as Jules Verne does, from the time when the world was a very small circle indeed, surrounded by the densest of outer darkness, and when the Cartagenian navigators ventured timidly out of the Mediterranean -- is to gain an altogether new idea of the daring and skill that has been expended in this one direction. It is a worthy subject for the most ambitious work of such a writer.Verne obtained all information for the book from the original documents.''This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world.'' Jules Verne
The King of the Tigers
Author: Louis Rousselet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805
Author: Cook Inlet Historical Society
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295975832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295975832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
The Purple Land that England Lost
Author: William Henry Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uruguay
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uruguay
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Vanished Diamond
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description