The Armchair Navigator Iii

Author : Steve Dehner
Publisher : Bad Tattoo Inc.
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Armchair Navigator III by Steve Dehner Pdf

Part 3 in a series of essays providing supplements and corrections to what is currently known about the post-Spanish discoveries of the Pacific islands. Just for the fun of it. In this issue: - The stranding of whaler "Mary" of London on Jarvis Island (United States Minor Outlying Islands) - A summary of (re-)discoveries of the Wake and Johnston Atolls. - Antipodes Island, probably discovered in 1799 (thus prior to Capt. Henry Waterhouse's sighting in 1800) - The 1810 rediscovery of Flint Island (Line Islands, Kiribati) by Capt. Obed Chase. - The conjectured route of the 1801-1802 voyage of ship "Venus" of Port Jackson, Capts. Charles Bishop & George Bass (during which trip Bass discovers Mauke in the Cook Islands archipelago and Marotiri, part of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.)

Author : Steve Dehner
Publisher : Bad Tattoo Inc.
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Armchair Navigator II by Steve Dehner Pdf

Additions to and corrections of earlier sources in regard to Post-Spanish discoveries in the Pacific Ocean.

Author : Steve Dehner
Publisher : Bad Tattoo Inc.
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE ARMCHAIR NAVIGATOR I by Steve Dehner Pdf

some supposed (by me) revisions or supplements of or changes to the discovery of modern Oeno Island, Pitcairn Island (Pitcairn Islands overseas territory) ; Fanning Atoll ; Palmyra Atoll ; Kingman Reef ; Rawaki ; Abariringa; Baker Island ; Vaitupu ; Niutao ; Nikumaroro (TIGAR / aviatrix Amelia Earhart) ; Carondelet Reef; Winslow Reef.

Author : Bruce Gibson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473822443

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Cockpit Commander: A Navigator's Life by Bruce Gibson Pdf

Previously self-published by the author, this book charts the course of a dramatic career as a Wing Commander. Living through one of the most dynamic periods in military and Aviation development history, Bruce Gibson saw events play out from his elevated aerial position. His fascinating story will appeal to a wide audience, focussing as it does not only upon Aviation concerns. From life as a mischievous child living in the East End of London, to realising his true direction and joining the RAF Air Volunteer Reserves in 1937, and then the Royal Air Force, and beyond into Aviation ventures in a Civilian capacity. His amusing observations and anecdotes provide the most colourful insight into life during the monochromatic blackout years of World War II, and beyond.Many historical records and operational logs are available on the market to those looking for cold facts and statistical analyses of events; this account features the human tales, the anecdotes and spirit of camaraderie which characterised Gibson's experiences.

Author : Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226466965

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III by Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley Pdf

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

Author : Gonzalo Gums
Publisher : Gonzalo Guma
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Equinox by Gonzalo Gums Pdf

Within the eternal wall of Equinox lie the answers to humanity's most ancient existential questions: Are our whole lives predetermined by a higher power? What happens to the soul when the body dies? This fantastic novel takes us on a journey to that enigmatic place —whether a parallel universe, a traveling waypoint or a bizarre Purgatory is for us to discover— where Tomás’s soul is trapped following a serious accident. To turn the first page of “Equinox: Whispers of Destiny” is to involve ourselves in an original and fascinating tale of adventures that captivate from beginning to end. Have you ever had the feeling something or someone was “playing” with your Destiny?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006743921

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The New York Times Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vera Velichko
Publisher : Language Transformer
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780975443361

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The Best on the East, Volume 3 Sci-fi by Vera Velichko Pdf

Velichko, Vera The Best on the East, volume 3: XX century most well-loved fiction from Eastern Europe for kids and adults / by Vera Velichko.- 1st ed.

Author : Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231150736

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An Outline of a Theory of Civilization by Yukichi Fukuzawa Pdf

Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's most sustained philosophical text, Fukuzawa translates and adapts a range of Western works for a Japanese audience, establishing the social, cultural, and political avenues through which Japan could connect with other countries. Echoing the ideas of Western contemporaries such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, Fukuzawa encouraged a grassroots elevation of the individual and national spirit, as well as free initiative in the private domain. Fukuzawa's bold project articulated thoughts that, for him, bolstered the material evidence of Western civilization. He argued that the essential difference separating Western countries from Japan and Asia was the extent to which citizens acted like free and responsible individuals. This careful new translation, accompanied by a comprehensive critical introduction, highlights the truly transnational aspects of Outline of a Theory of Civilization and its status as a foundational text of modern Japanese civilization. Approaching Fukuzawa's progressive thought with a fresh eye, these scholars elucidate the monumental and peerless quality of his work.

Author : Jason W. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469640457

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To Master the Boundless Sea by Jason W. Smith Pdf

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.

Author : Vladimir L. Bychkov,Gennady V. Golubkov,Anatoly I. Nikitin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319052397

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The Atmosphere and Ionosphere by Vladimir L. Bychkov,Gennady V. Golubkov,Anatoly I. Nikitin Pdf

This book presents a collection of reviews prepared for the conference “Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Safety,” held in Kaliningrad, Russia, in July 2012. It provides the reader insight into the current developments in the following fields: physics of elementary processes; ionosphere dynamics; ball lightning and aerosol structures; as well as remote detection of the radioactive and highly toxic substances. The diversity of scope presented offers readers an up-to-date overview of trends, questions and their solutions.

Author : Александр Невзоров
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9785040505562

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$ 300 Million. As for 3 months to become the owner of 300000000 $ by Александр Невзоров Pdf

This book was written exactly for 3 months, in the 4th quarter of 2010. Now it is first translated into English for sale in electronic form on Amazon. Can I get $ 300 million out of nowhere? The author claims that it is possible. Do not believe me? The only gain from selling a book in English will cover this amount. So author states...

Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812291858

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An Empire of Air and Water by Siobhan Carroll Pdf

Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.

Author : Richard MacKay
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1904381170

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A Precarious Existence by Richard MacKay Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015075839236

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U.S. News & World Report by Anonim Pdf