Great Explorers Before Columbus
Author | : John Reade |
Publisher | : Printed at the Morning Chronicle Office |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Reade |
Publisher | : Printed at the Morning Chronicle Office |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0500774315 |
Penetrating biographies written by a group of distinguished travel writers, broadcasters, and historians reveal the lives, motives, and passions of forty major explorers in history. It has always been mankind’s gift, or curse, to be inquisitive, and through the ages people have been driven to explore the limits of the worlds known to them—and beyond. Here are the stories of forty of the world’s greatest explorers from Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. These are men and women who changed our perception of the world through their courageous adventures. Organized thematically, the book opens with the oceanic journeys of five hundred years ago, when the great era of recorded exploration began. The following sections look at The Land, Rivers, Polar Ice, Deserts, Life on Earth, and New Frontiers. Many of these explorers recounted their journeys in vivid firsthand accounts; others were superb artists or photographers. The book features quotes from their journals and reports, and it is illustrated with paintings, photographs, engravings, and maps, so that we can experience their adventures through their own eyes and in their own words. Featured explorers include: Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Lewis and Clark, Richard Burton, Samuel de Champlain, David Livingstone, Roald Amundsen, Gertrude Bell, Alexander von Humboldt, Yuri Gagarin, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 0195042220 |
This abridgement of the late Samuel Eliot Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, which the Journal of Southern History called "an epic work of true grandeur," and the Virginia Quarterly Review considered "a great book by a great historian," preserves the originality, scholarship, and vivid descriptions of the original volumes.
Author | : Reade John |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019831571 |
Many believe Columbus was the first to explore the New World, but in reality, there were many other great explorers who came before him. This book chronicles the history of those early explorers, including their successes and failures, as well as the political and economic realities that drove their expeditions. It is a fascinating look into the history of exploration and the people who changed our understanding of the world around us. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hjalmar Rued Holand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258648763 |
Author | : Stewart Angas Weaver |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199946957 |
This clear, succinct, and elegant contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series surveys the history of global exploration and assesses the motives, for good and ill, of those who undertook it. Stewart Weaver traces the history of exploration from the first explorers (including Polynesian and Micronesian peoples, the ancient Greeks, Marco Polo, and Ibn BattÐta), to the European discover of America, the Enlightenment and exploration (focusing on James Cook), and the race to the north and south poles
Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2004-04-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592446485 |
Christopher Columbus returned to Europe in the final days of 1500, ending his third voyage to the Indies not in triumph but in chains. Seeking to justify his actions and protect his rights, he began to compile biblical texts and excerpts from patristic writings and medieval theology in a manuscript known as the Book of Prophecies. This unprecedented collection was designed to support his vision of the discovery of the Indies as an important event in the process of human salvation - a first step toward the liberation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim domination. This work is part of a twelve-volume series produced by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies which involved the collaboration of some forty scholars over the course of fourteen years. In this volume of the series, Roberto Rusconi has written a complete historical introduction to the Book of Prophecies, describing the manuscript's history and analyzing its principal themes. His edition of the documents, the only modern one, includes a complete critical apparatus and detailed commentary, while the facing-page English translations allow Columbus's work to be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike.
Author | : Carole S. Gallagher |
Publisher | : Chelsea House |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1999-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780791055090 |
A biography of the Italian explorer who, in the fifteenth century, became the first European to discover the West Indies islands, located below the southernmost tip of the United States, in three historic voyages sponsored by Spain's monarchy.
Author | : Ellen Kavanagh |
Publisher | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1627170235 |
Who Helped Map The World? Learn About The Voyages Of Christopher Columbus And Marco Polo And Their Contributions To Our World. Social Studies Based Leveled Readers For Use In Guided Reading And Social Studies Instruction.