The Maiden Voyage Of Victoria

Author : Willie Jackson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595299621

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The Maiden Voyage of Victoria by Willie Jackson Pdf

Intelligent life is discovered through a radio wave from a planet 400 light years away. Now Earth is in a race to beat their own radio waves to this planet before they discover that we exist. Through faster than light travel, a series of gateways are built and positioned between our sun and theirs, while the largest most highly advanced warship, the Victoria, is built and made ready for its maiden voyage and possible first contact mission. Captain Kristopher Freeman, takes his first command as the ships captain and as the youngest captain in Earth's history to ever be given such a high responsibility. The shakedown cruise turns into a real mission when one of Earth destroyers is unexpectedly destroyed in that far off system by another race Earth didn't know existed and wants to take this own world for their own. Can Captain Freeman and Victoria protect his world? Read it to find out!

Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802093707

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The First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522 by Antonio Pigafetta Pdf

The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.

Author : Nancy Smiler Levinson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0395987733

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Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World by Nancy Smiler Levinson Pdf

A biography of the Portuguese sea captain who set sail from Spain in 1519 and successfully sailed around the world to prove that the world is not only round but circumnavigable.

Author : George Makepeace Towle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : NYPL:33333219846058

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Magellan, Or, The First Voyage Round the World by George Makepeace Towle Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Marcus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987253777

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The maiden voyage by Geoffrey Marcus Pdf

Author : Rosie Goodwin
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785767562

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A Maiden's Voyage by Rosie Goodwin Pdf

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Blessed Child; perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Katie Flynn and Catherine Cookson. 'Goodwin is a master of her craft. The perfect book for a cold winter's evening' Lancashire Evening Post 'Goodwin is a fabulous writer' Worcester Evening News 'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson 'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn Andrews Thursday's child has far to go . . . 1912, London. Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry the charming Jamie Branning, her future seems clear. But Flora's life is turned upside down when her mistress's father dies in a tragic accident. Connie is forced to move to New York to live with her aunt until she comes of age, and begs Flora to go with her. Flora has never left the country before, and now faces a difficult decision - give up her position, or leave her family behind. But when her beau lets her down, her mind is made up. Soon Connie and Flora head for Southampton to board the RMS Titanic ... A Maiden's Voyage is the fifth book in Rosie Goodwin's Days of the Week Collection. Why not try the rest, Mothering Sunday, The Little Angel, A Mother's Grace, The Blessed Child, A Precious Gift and Time to Say Goodbye?

Author : Geoffrey Jules Marcus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036850001

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The Maiden Voyage by Geoffrey Jules Marcus Pdf

Author : Tania Aebi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781476711607

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Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi Pdf

What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love. Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, she’d have to sail around the world—alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and—most of all—confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals…

Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442692077

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The First Voyage around the World (1519-1522) by Antonio Pigafetta Pdf

On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta's The First Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature. This volume is based on the critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J. Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez. However, Cachey is careful to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared.

Author : Miriam Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1839754958

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The Maiden Voyage of the Charlotte Jane 1848-1850 by Miriam Lawrence Pdf

Miriam Lawrence's evocative memoir describing the exciting voyage she made in 1848-50, aged 20, on a wooden three mast sailing ship, captained by her husband, to Australia, Hong Kong and other places in Asia.

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061865886

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Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.

Author : Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108011433

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First Voyage Round the World by Magellan by Antonio Pigafetta Pdf

Volume 52 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1874) contains a survivor's account of Magellan's expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

Author : Paul Curtis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780750992749

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High Tea on the Cunard Queens by Paul Curtis Pdf

This amusing insight into Cunard's legendary liners begins more than fifty years ago when Paul Curtis joined the original Queen Mary as entertainments officer. Over a Cunard high tea in the Queens Room, Paul recounts the stories of these iconic ships. Then, over a drink in the Red Lion, he shares the tales of the antics of both passengers and crews. The facts are delivered in vivid detail – some of them things you should know and an occasional peep at things you shouldn't. Simply turning these pages releases a sniff of the sea and a whiff of champagne. Paul has worked, travelled upon or photographed every Cunard Queen ever built. He has an offbeat sense of humour and a keen appetite for the ridiculous. A life at sea can do that to you.

Author : Lord Stanley of Alderley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317031680

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The First Voyage Round the World, by Magellan by Lord Stanley of Alderley Pdf

The text is translated 'from the Accounts of Pigafetta, and other Contemporary Writers. Accompanied by Original Documents, with Notes and an Introduction'. It includes the log-book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro, Pigafetta's treatise on navigation and his account of the voyage, Gaspar Correa's account, other anonymous narratives, and documents relating to the cost and other aspects of the expedition. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1874.

Author : Magellan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368803339

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The First Voyage Round the World by Magellan Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.