Author: David PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean
Author: David PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean in the United States Frigate Essex in ... 1812, 1813 & 1814; to which is Added the Transactions at Valparaiso from the Period of the Author's Arrival Until the Capture of the Essex, the Fate of the Party Left at Madison's Island Under Gamble, & an Introd. in which the Charges Contained in the Quarterly Review of the First Edition of this Journal are Examined ...
Author: David PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages & travels
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean,
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books, Mauscripts and Prints and Other Memorabilia in the John S. Barnes Memorial Library of the Naval History Society
Author: Naval History Society. Barnes Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900
Author: David W. ForbesPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824862791
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This comprehensive, annotated, multivolume bibliography is a record of all printed works touching on some aspect of the political, religious, cultural, or social history of the Hawaiian Islands-from the first printed notice mentioning the Islands (in a German periodical of January 1780) to the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Islands ceased to be a separate political entity. Volume I covers the period from 1780 to 1830, when exploratory voyages to the northern Pacific had largely concluded and the arrival of improved printing equipment in the Islands resulted in a substantial increase in the number of works printed by the Mission Press in Honolulu. In addition to books and pamphlets, the bibliography includes newspaper and periodical accounts and single sheet publications such as broadsides, circulars, playbills, and handbills because they often contain the only eyewitness or contemporary description of an important event or individual. Entries pertaining to Captain Cook's Third Voyage dominate the first twenty years of the bibliography. They reflect the profound impact of the voyage on both the Hawaiian culture and on nineteenth-century European thought. Extensive annotations provide a brief summary of approximately 760 published works in the first volume of the bibliography. All known editions of each work are listed, together with the exact title, date of publication, size of the volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies. The bibliography will be invaluable to scholars, librarians, rare book sellers, and book collectors within the field of Hawaiiana.
A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time.
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752520531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.
A Catalogue of the Personal Library of Stephen Girard (1750-1831)
Author: William Francis ZeilPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Second War with England Vol. 2
Author: Joel HeadleyPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429020768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Grass Huts and Warehouses
Author: Caroline RalstonPublisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 1921902329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade developed along with the beachcomber community, and a detailed reconstruction of development of the early Pacific port towns. Set mainly in the first half of the 19th century, continuing in some cases for a few decades more, the book covers five ports: Kororareka (now Russell, in New Zealand), Levuka (Fiji), Apia (Samoa), Papeete (Tahiti) and Honolulu (Hawai'i). The role of beachcombers, the earliest European inhabitants, as well as the later consuls or commercial agents, and the development of plantation economies is explored. The book is a tour de force, the first detailed comparative academic study of these early precolonial trading towns and their race relations. It argues that the predominantly egalitarian towns where Islanders, beachcombers, traders, and missionaries mixed were largely harmonious, but this was undermined by later arrivals and larger populations.
The Book of Buried Treasure
Author: Ralph D. PainePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The Book of Buried Treasure is a historical account of pirates and piracy, containing true stories of some of the most notorious buccaneers, their heists and robberies and the pirate gold that is lost forever. The book is written by American journalist and adventurer Ralph D. Paine who was indicted for piracy with a capital crime, after sailing on a boat that was smuggling munitions._x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches_x000D_ Captain Kidd in Fact and Fiction_x000D_ Captain Kidd, His Treasure_x000D_ Captain Kidd, His Trial, and Death_x000D_ The Wondrous Fortune of William Phips_x000D_ The Bold Sea Rogue, John Quelch_x000D_ The Armada Galleon of Tobermory Bay_x000D_ The Lost Plate Fleet of Vigo_x000D_ The Pirates' Hoard of Trinidad_x000D_ The Lure of Cocos Island_x000D_ The Mystery of the Lutine Frigate_x000D_ The Toilers of the Thetis_x000D_ The Quest of El Dorado_x000D_ The Wizardry of the Divining Rod_x000D_ Sundry Pirates and Their Booty_x000D_ Practical Hints for Treasure Seekers
