Author: Hal Marcovitz
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791064283
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
A biography of the Spanish explorer whose explorations of the northern coast of South America led him to discover the Pacific Ocean.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa and the Discovery of the South Sea
Author: Hal Marcovitz
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791064283
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
A biography of the Spanish explorer whose explorations of the northern coast of South America led him to discover the Pacific Ocean.
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791064283
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
A biography of the Spanish explorer whose explorations of the northern coast of South America led him to discover the Pacific Ocean.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Author: Steven Otfinoski
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761416098
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This bio describes the life of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and who conceived the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761416098
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This bio describes the life of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and who conceived the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
Author: Max Quanchi
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357965965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357965965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Author: Pedro de Cieza de Leon
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822382504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de León vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest historical account of the conquest of Peru. Available for the first time in English, this history of Peru is based largely on interviews with Cieza’s conquistador compatriates, as well as with Indian informants knowledgeable of the Incan past. Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook present this recently discovered third book of a four-part chronicle that provides the most thorough and definitive record of the birth of modern Andean America. It describes with unparalleled detail the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America led by Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the imprisonment and death of the Inca Atahualpa, the Indian resistance, and the ultimate Spanish domination. Students and scholars of Latin American history and conquest narratives will welcome the publication of this volume.
Missionary Life in the Southern Seas
Author: James Hutton (Author of A Hundred Years Ago.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Missionary Life in the Southern Seas
Author: James Hutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Remarks on Hawaii in Chapter XII, p. 166-182--Forbes, David W. Hawaiian national bibliography.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Remarks on Hawaii in Chapter XII, p. 166-182--Forbes, David W. Hawaiian national bibliography.
Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme Or Castilla Del Oro, and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua
Author: Pascual de Andagoya
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
An historical account of the circumnavigation of the globe and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific ocean, from the voyage of Magellan to the death of Cook
Author: Historical account
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publications of the Navy Records Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description