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Author : Edward Riou
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa : Cape)
ISBN : 0620144556
Author : M. D. Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 0620144556
Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0142004693
Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.
Author : Ludwig Krause
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0958411220
Author : Eugene Rasor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848320024
This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.
Author : Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0958411255
Author : Graham Bower
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0958411298
Author : Frederick Hale
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 0958411239
Author : Gustaf De Vylder
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0958411247
Author : Hendrik Cloete,G. J. Schutte
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 0958452210
Author : Nigel Worden,Gerald Groenewald
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cape of Good Hope
ISBN : 0958452237
Author : Mark Staniforth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461502111
The establishment of a consumer society in Australia has not been a particularly well explored area of academic inquiry. My interests lie in the concepts and meanings that underlie the material world; ideas like, in the words of Madonna, "I am a material girl and I live in a material world" (terminology taken to be not gender specific), the classic graffiti paraphrasing of Descartes: I shop therefore I am or perhaps simply in the "world of goods" in the more academically respectable terms of Douglas and Isherwood (1979). This book arises out of my longstanding interest in the early colonial period in Australia. In part it represents an extension of the purely "historical" research conducted for my Master's thesis in the Department of History at the University of Sydney which explored aspects of the diet, health and lived experience of con victs and immigrants during their voyages to the Australian colonies within the timeframe 1837 to 1839 (Staniforth, 1993a). More importantly, it is the culmina tion of more than twenty-five years involvement in the excavation of shipwreck sites in Australia starting with James Matthews (1841) in 1974, through the test excavation of William Salthouse in 1982, continuing with my involvement between 1985 and 1994 in the excavation of Sydney Cove (1797) and most recently with shore-based whaling stations and whaling shipwreck sites. In this respect, this book may be seen as an example of what Ian Hodder (1986, p.
Author : Tim Causer
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911576822
Among the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), held by UCL Library’s Special Collections, is the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin. This document also happens to be the only extant first-hand account of the most well-known, and most mythologized, escape from Australia by transported convicts. On the night of 28 March 1791, James Martin, William and Mary Bryant and their two infant children, and six other male convicts, stole the colony’s fishing boat and sailed out of Sydney Harbour. Within ten weeks they had reached Kupang in West Timor, having, in an amazing feat of endurance, travelled over 3,000 miles (c. 5,000) kilometres) in an open boat. There they passed themselves off as the survivors of a shipwreck, a ruse which—initially, at least—fooled their Dutch hosts. This new edition of the Memorandoms includes full colour reproductions of the original manuscripts, making available for the first time this hugely important document, alongside a transcript with commentary describing the events and key characters. The book also features a scholarly introduction which examines their escape and early convict absconding in New South Wales more generally, and, drawing on primary records, presents new research which sheds light on the fate of the escapees after they reached Kupang. The introduction also assesses the voluminous literature on this most famous escape, and critically examines the myths and fictions created around it and the escapees, myths which have gone unchallenged for far too long. Finally, the introduction briefly discusses Jeremy Bentham’s views on convict transportation and their enduring impact.
Author : Boris Gorelik
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780981426464
The Russian view of the Cape as represented in this volume may be unique. During the period in question, Russia had no cultural, political or economic ties with South Africa. Russians saw the Cape only as a convenient stopover en route to the Far East, to their country’s distant domains that could not be reached by sea otherwise. The Cape was one of the ‘exotic’ lands they would visit on such journeys, their first and only introduction to the African continent. Although amazed and perplexed by the ‘entirely different world’ they found here, Russian travellers would often draw unexpected parallels between life in their motherland and the realities of the Cape Colony. The selections include memoirs of such important Russian personalities as Yuri Lisyansky, Vasily Golovnin, Ivan Goncharov and Konstantin Posyet. Most of the texts appear in English for the first time.
Author : Margaret E. Schotte
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421429540
Hands-on science in the Age of Exploration. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Science and Technology by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Leo Gershoy Prize by the American Historical Association Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science. In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land. She begins by outlining the influential sixteenth-century Iberian model for training and certifying nautical practitioners. She takes us into a Dutch bookshop stocked with maritime manuals and a French trigonometry lesson devoted to the idea that "navigation is nothing more than a right triangle." The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months, thanks largely to lessons he learned as a keen student. This is the first study to trace the importance, for the navigator's art, of the world of print. Schotte interrogates a wide variety of archival records from six countries, including hundreds of published textbooks and never-before-studied manuscripts crafted by practitioners themselves. Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.
