Urville

Author : Gilles Trehin
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1846424852

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Urville by Gilles Trehin Pdf

Urville, the capital of a large island province, has a population of nearly 12 million, making it the one of the most significant cities in Europe. It is also entirely imaginary. Gilles Tréhin, an autistic man with exceptional creative talents and an obsession with large cities, conceived and developed Urville over the course of 20 years. He shares his vision in this beautifully illustrated guide to the city, which he renders convincingly real in nearly 300 drawings of different districts of Urville. He describes, in remarkable detail, the architectural styles of its individual buildings and provides historical, geographical, economic and cultural information. This includes historical figures and cultural anecdotes grounded in historical reality - Tréhin accounts for the effects of the Vichy regime, the Second World War and globalisation on his imagined city. This book offers fascinating evidence of and insight into the creative power of the autistic mind and will be of interest to people with autism and without.

Author : Inge van Rij
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521896467

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The Other Worlds of Hector Berlioz by Inge van Rij Pdf

Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

Author : Bronwen Douglas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137305893

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Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 by Bronwen Douglas Pdf

Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands).

Author : Joseph Sabin,Wilberforce Eames,Robert William Glenroie Vail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : America
ISBN : NLS:V000012594

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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America by Joseph Sabin,Wilberforce Eames,Robert William Glenroie Vail Pdf

Author : Edward Duyker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822040806457

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Dumont D’Urville by Edward Duyker Pdf

Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime explorer fascinated by botany, entomology, ethnography and the diverse languages of the world. As a young ensign he was decorated for his pivotal part in France's acquisition of the famous Vénus de Milo. D'Urville's voyages and writings meshed with an emergent French colonial impulse in the Pacific. In this magnificent biography Edward Duyker reveals that D'Urville had secret orders to search for the site for a potential French penal colony in Australia. He also effectively helped to precipitate pre-emptive British settlement on several parts of the Australian coast. D'Urville visited New Zealand in 1824, 1827 and 1840. This wide-ranging survey examines his scientific contribution, including the plants and animals he collected, and his conceptualisation of the peoples of the Pacific: it was he who first coined the terms Melanesia and Micronesia. D'Urville helped to confirm the fate of the missing French explorer Lapérouse, took Charles X into exile after the Revolution of 1830, and crowned his navigational achievements with two pioneering Antarctic descents. Edward Duyker has used primary documents that have long been overlooked by other historians. He dispels many myths and errors about this daring explorer of the age of sail and offers his readers grand adventure and surprising drama and pathos.

Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081687877

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Bibliotheca Americana by Joseph Sabin Pdf

Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : America
ISBN : PRNC:32101043506862

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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time by Joseph Sabin Pdf

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415970242

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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

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Author : David Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199323623

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Antarctica by David Day Pdf

Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.

Author : Gillian Dooley,Danielle Clode
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743056158

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The First Wave by Gillian Dooley,Danielle Clode Pdf

The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.

Author : Serge Tcherkezoff
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921536021

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First Contacts in Polynesia - the Samoan Case (1722-1848) by Serge Tcherkezoff Pdf

This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called 'Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate' about the fate of Captain Cook, 'First Contacts' in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in 'cloth' and presenting 'young girls' for 'sexual contact'. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call 'Papalagi'. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted 'Mead-Freeman debate' which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in 'Samoan culture'. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Laperouse's and Dumont d'Urville's narratives.

Author : Shino Konishi,Maria Nugent,Tiffany Shellam
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925022773

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Indigenous Intermediaries by Shino Konishi,Maria Nugent,Tiffany Shellam Pdf

This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries – Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals – who were the guides, translators, and hosts that assisted and facilitated European travellers in exploring different parts of the world. These intermediaries are rarely the authors of exploration narratives, or the main focus within exploration archives. Nonetheless the archives of exploration contain imprints of their presence, experience and contributions. The chapters present a range of ways of reading archives to bring them to the fore. The contributors ask new questions of existing materials, suggest new interpretive approaches, and present innovative ways to enhance sources so as to generate new stories.

Author : John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0642990468

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Bibliography of Australia by John Alexander Ferguson Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11040770

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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : PRNC:32101013923212

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The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Includes list of members.