Author: Lawrence George Green
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Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Tavern of the Seas
Author: Lawrence George Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Tavern of the Seas
Author: Lawrence George Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Cape Town, Tavern of the Seas
Author: Lawrence George Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781919854120
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781919854120
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Rotary in the Tavern of the Seas
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Seascapes
Author: Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824864247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts—some more successful than others—to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824864247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts—some more successful than others—to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.
Star of the West
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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Bahai Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The Wide Wide Sea
Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: Random House Large Print
ISBN: 0593863186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. “Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook’s story and retells it for the 21st century.”—Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-–the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook’s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook’s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
ISBN: 0593863186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. “Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook’s story and retells it for the 21st century.”—Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-–the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook’s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook’s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.
The English-speaking World
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Includes the Union's Annual report.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Includes the Union's Annual report.
The Gathering Storm
Author: Peter Hardy
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839751487
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book describes the author's experience of two and a half years of misadventure in rich, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia (now impoverished, African-controlled Zimbabwe).
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839751487
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book describes the author's experience of two and a half years of misadventure in rich, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia (now impoverished, African-controlled Zimbabwe).
Passport to the Best of Cape Town, South Africa
Author: Carrie Hampton
Publisher: Passport Publications (SA) CC
ISBN: 0620316985
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Passport to the best of Cape Town, South Afrca is relevant not just to the first time traveller to this city, but the second and third time visitor too, serving travellers from around the world as well as fellow South Africans.
Publisher: Passport Publications (SA) CC
ISBN: 0620316985
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Passport to the best of Cape Town, South Afrca is relevant not just to the first time traveller to this city, but the second and third time visitor too, serving travellers from around the world as well as fellow South Africans.