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Author : Douglas J. Mahr,Ramtha (the enlightened one (Spirit.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0931317347
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429937733
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000012952243
Author : Rafael Campo
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1611922445
A collection of poems by a San Francisco doctor of Latino origin. The subjects include: an immigrant's son discovers his cultural identity, a physician awakens to the suffering of his patients, and two gay Latinos fall in love.
Author : Gunnar Thompson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : America
ISBN : 9780557231652
The best introduction to multiethnic New World Discovery before Columbus. Nine true adventures featuring Hatshepsut, King Solomon, Xu Fu, Marco Polo, Nicholas of Lynn, Zheng He, Martin Behaim, Amerigo Vespucci, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth, and Francis Drake. Includes first maize (Indian corn) in Egypt, early maps of America before Columbus, Roman Florida, Albertin di Virga's 1414 map of Peru and North America, ancient artifacts and faces of Old World voyagers in Mexico and Peru, and Francis Drake's amazing "clock map." Excellent coffee-table book; great for adults and young readers. Beautifully illustrated; excellent index and bibliography. A fun read that is also packed with new information about secret voyages, forbidden lands, and enigmas the pros have missed.
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : New York : Corinth Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018329587
First published in 1847 under title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus. The letters are in the original Spanish and in English translation.
Author : Andrew Langley
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0791028216
Discusses the voyages of Columbus across the Atlantic.
Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402760566
Christopher Columbus and his crew had been sailing for five weeks into uncharted waters before finally reaching land one blazing hot day in 1492. It was a difficult journey that many predicted would be impossible, but Columbus proved them wrong and his voyage changed the world. Columbus had done it: he was the first man to reach the East by sailing west, and he was heralded as the Father of the New World. Columbus would take three more voyages to different places, but he remains best known as the pioneer who opened routes to the exploration and settlement of the Americas. Book jacket.
Author : George Forster
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0824820916
George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of Polynesian peoples as well as a sensitivity to the moral ambiguities of contact. The two volumes of George Forster's work include substantially richer descriptions of encounters with island inhabitants than either his father's classic work (Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, UH Press, 1996) or Cook's official narrative, and its confident, even visionary, style incorporates a good deal of polemic, particularly in its criticism of the treatment of islanders by Cook's crew. In addition to the range and depth of its anthropological considerations, it provides a thrilling account of life aboard one of Cook's vessels. In its author's German translation, this work becomes a classic of natural history writing, but its original English version has long been neglected by anglophone scholars. This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. But it also presents the work in fresh terms, making it more accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated. A Voyage Round the World brings the disciplines of history and anthropology to bear on Cook's voyages in an illuminating and readable fashion. This edition will help complete the corpus of basic documents on Cook's voyages--a crucial resource for researchers in cultural, Pacific, and maritime history; archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians; and most recently for scholars engaged in revisionist interpretations of eighteenth-century exploration and colonization.
Author : P. L. Firstbrook
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0771031211
On 24 June 1497, the Genoese adventurer John Cabot, bearing letters patent from King Henry VII, became the first European known to have set foot in North America. (Cabot’s contemporary, Christopher Columbus, never actually landed in North America. To his dying day he thought it was the Orient.) Cabot’s triumphant appropriation of the “New Founde Land” for England capped one of the great maritime adventures of the late fifteenth century. Five hundred years later, the Matthew, a painstakingly constructed replica of Cabot’s three-masted caravel, sailed from Bristol, England, to Bonavista, Newfoundland. Her arrival marked the culmination of a maritime adventure as daring in its way as the voyage it commemorates. This time, however, the trials of the captain and sailors on board were recorded on camera and in reporters' notebooks for armchair onlookers to enjoy. Peter Firstbrook has been intimately involved in the recreation of Cabot’s voyage, from the laying down of the modern-day Matthew’s keel in 1993 to its sea trials in 1996 and the voyage itself in 1997. In these pages he relates all that is known about the fifteenth-century adventurer and describes the many challenges that confronted the team that set out to replicate his voyage. The book concludes, like Cabot’s own life, with a mystery: there is no record of how the great seafarer ended his days. He may have simply retired. He may have been lost in a storm on his last attempted voyage to America. Or he may, in fact, have returned to the newly discovered continent only to be murdered by a notorious Spanish buccaneer. This is a finely wrought story of adventure and discovery that will delight and entertain readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241413296
'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' Guardian The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his buccaneering sea voyages around the world, from the Caribbean to the Pacific and East Indies. Filled with accounts of raids, escapes, wrecks and storms, it also contains precise observations of people, places, animals and food (including the first English accounts of guacamole, mango chutney and chopsticks). A bestseller on publication, this unique record of the colonial age influenced Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and consequently the whole of English literature. Edited with an Introduction by Nicholas Thomas
Author : Robert Young
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000124143
Describes the life of Christopher Columbus and how he came to discover the New World.
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : America
ISBN : OCLC:23469064
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : America
ISBN : UCSD:31822035194430
Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763656492
In this dramatic short story -- a prequel to the award-winning Chaos Walking Trilogy -- author Patrick Ness gives us the story of Viola's journey to the New World. Whether you're new to Chaos Walking or an established fan, this prequel serves as a fascinating introduction to the series that Publishers Weekly called one of the most important works of young adult science fiction in recent years.