Author: Peter Whitfield
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415920261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Land Ho!
Author:
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060277599
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Explains how the voyages of Columbus, Cabot, Ponce De Leon, and other European explorers to the American continents were the result of mistakes, accidents, and misses, and discusses the explorers' cruel treatment of native peoples.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060277599
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Explains how the voyages of Columbus, Cabot, Ponce De Leon, and other European explorers to the American continents were the result of mistakes, accidents, and misses, and discusses the explorers' cruel treatment of native peoples.
New Found Lands
Author: Peter Whitfield
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415920261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415920261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Land of Tears
Author: Robert Harms
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541699661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541699661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.
Exploration
Author: Michael Allaby
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131615
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Exploration tells the intriguing story of the navigators who crossed oceans to chart the coastlines of distant continents, the adventurers who traversed deserts and polar wastes, and the traders who sought new markets and commodities in faraway lands. The secrets of the planet and its living inhabitants have been unraveled thanks to the efforts made by these navigators and adventurers. This new, full-color book begins with a narration of the earliest seagoing ships and the vehicles that transported diplomats, warriors, and merchants around the Mediterranean region and later around the world. It explores the Vikings who terrorized Western Europe and colonized Greenland as well as the swift outrigger vessels that sailed from Asia to the islands of the Pacific. This accessible resource describes the development of navigational instruments to help on long journeys out of sight of landOCoincluding the sextant and compassOCoand explains how to calculate latitude and longitude."
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131615
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Exploration tells the intriguing story of the navigators who crossed oceans to chart the coastlines of distant continents, the adventurers who traversed deserts and polar wastes, and the traders who sought new markets and commodities in faraway lands. The secrets of the planet and its living inhabitants have been unraveled thanks to the efforts made by these navigators and adventurers. This new, full-color book begins with a narration of the earliest seagoing ships and the vehicles that transported diplomats, warriors, and merchants around the Mediterranean region and later around the world. It explores the Vikings who terrorized Western Europe and colonized Greenland as well as the swift outrigger vessels that sailed from Asia to the islands of the Pacific. This accessible resource describes the development of navigational instruments to help on long journeys out of sight of landOCoincluding the sextant and compassOCoand explains how to calculate latitude and longitude."
Exploration by Land
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Thameside Press
ISBN: 9781931983327
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Examines the opening and development of the silk route and the effects of trade between the East and the West.
Publisher: Thameside Press
ISBN: 9781931983327
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Examines the opening and development of the silk route and the effects of trade between the East and the West.
Revealing the Holy Land
Author: Kathleen Stewart Howe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780899510958
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Exhibition itinerary : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jan. 29-May 31, 1998; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Oct. 13-Dec. 13, 1999; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 23-May 23, 1999.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780899510958
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Exhibition itinerary : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jan. 29-May 31, 1998; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Oct. 13-Dec. 13, 1999; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 23-May 23, 1999.
Peru
Author: Ephraim George Squier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chimes
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chimes
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Bold Voyages and Great Explorers
Author: Björn Landström
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780385017633
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780385017633
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Exploration
Author: Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192805568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192805568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
The Road to Botany Bay
Author: Paul Carter
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666997X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666997X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session