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Author : William R. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015004708577
Traces the life and worldwide travels of the 18th-century English explorer Captain James Cook.
Author : Donald Hoffmann
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826265265
For Mark Twain, it was love at first landfall. Samuel Clemens first encountered the Bermuda Islands in 1867 on a return voyage from the Holy Land and found them much to his liking. One of the most isolated spots in the world, Bermuda offered the writer a refuge from his harried and sometimes sad existence on the mainland, and this island paradise called him back another seven times. Clemens found that Bermuda’s beauty, pace, weather, and company were just the medicine he needed, and its seafaring culture with few connections to the outside world appealed to his love of travel by water. This book is the first comprehensive study of Clemens’s love affair with Bermuda, a vivid depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations. Donald Hoffmann has culled and clarified passages from Mark Twain’s travel pieces, letters, and unpublished autobiographical dictation—with cross-references to his fiction and infrequently cited short pieces—to create a little-known view of the author at leisure on his fantasy island. Mark Twain in Paradise sheds light on both Clemens’s complex character and the topography and history of the islands. Hoffmann has plumbed the voluminous Mark Twain scholarship and Bermudian archives to faithfully re-create turn-of-the-century Bermuda, supplying historical and biographical background to give his narrative texture and depth. He offers insight into Bermuda’s natural environment, traditional stone houses, and romantic past, and he presents dozens of illustrations, both vintage and new, showing that much of what Mark Twain described can still be seen today. Hoffmann also provides insight into the social circles Clemens moved in—and sometimes collected around himself. When visiting the islands, he rubbed shoulders with the likes of socialist Upton Sinclair and multimillionaire Henry H. Rogers; with Woodrow Wilson and his lover, socialite Mary Peck; as well as with the young girls to whom he enjoyed playing grandfather. “You go to heaven if you want to,” Mark Twain wrote from Bermuda in 1910 during his long last visit. “I’d druther stay here.” And because much of what Clemens enjoyed in the islands is still available to experience today, visitors to Bermuda can now have America’s favorite author as their guide. Mark Twain in Paradise is an unexpected addition to the vast literature by and about Mark Twain and a work of travel literature unlike any other.
Author : Evelina Guzauskyte
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442668256
In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants. Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt to impose his will on the terrain. Instead, she argues that they were the result of the collisions between several distinct worlds, including the real and mythical geography of the Old World, Portuguese and Catalan naming traditions, and the knowledge and mapping practices of the Taino inhabitants of the Caribbean. Rather than reflecting the Spanish desire for an orderly empire, Columbus’s collection of place names was fractured and fragmented – the product of the explorer’s dynamic relationship with the inhabitants, nature, and geography of the Caribbean Basin. To complement Gužauskytė’s argument, the book also features the first comprehensive list of the more than two hundred Columbian place names that are documented in his diarios and other contemporary sources.
Author : Elisabeth Hodermarsky,Elizabeth C. Childs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Oceania
ISBN : 0894679767
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890-1891, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, Conn. October 19, 2010-January 2, 2011, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy Andover, Mass., January 22-March 27, 2011."
Author : Margarita Zamora
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520913943
Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars—questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World.
Author : William Fordyce Mavor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1797
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : NYPL:33433000366306
Author : William Fordyce Mavor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433000370084
Author : Richard Hakluyt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108071390
This twelve-volume edition of the geographical works of Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was published in 1903-5.
Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843313189
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
Author : John Murungi,Linda Ardito
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527592827
The world of aesthetics is, itself, inextricable from the world as a whole. Indeed, as this book argues, it is among its essential features, and an invaluable key to its appreciation. Thus, to venture into the uncharted world of aesthetics is also to venture into this larger world, a world that might be called the “cosmos” or the “universe”. At the same time, to venture into this uncharted realm is to also blaze a trail to the self. This trail would, itself, be paradoxical, as it would end where it begins and begin where it ends. In this light, it may also be said that the uncharted world of aesthetics is the uncharted world of the self. This book provides insights into how works about aesthetics are also works reflective of the self, as well as works with endless possibilities of being.
Author : Sebastian I. Sobecki
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843841371
A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privileged place in the geography of salvation or the political fiction of the idyllic island fortress, medieval English writers' myths of the sea betray their anxieties about their own insular identity; their texts call on maritime motifs to define England geographically and culturally against the presence of the sea. New insights from a range of fields, including jurisprudence, theology, the history of cartography and anthropology, are used to provide fresh readings of a wide range of both insular and continental writings.
Author : Susanna Moore
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429944960
The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals—from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines, and the British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage, soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay—all wanderers washed ashore, sometimes by accident. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants—legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. In Paradise of the Pacific, Susanna Moore, the award-winning author of In the Cut and The Life of Objects, pieces together the elusive, dramatic story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii—its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers—a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.
Author : Soccorro Barbaran Carino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036069578
Author : Lynn Tarte Ramey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christians in literature
ISBN : 0415930138
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : James Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108084802
This seven-volume illustrated edition of James Cook's journals, originally published in 1821, brings together these celebrated writings in an attractive format.
