Voyages & Discoveries in the South Seas, 1792-1832
Author | : Edmund Fanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
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Author | : Edmund Fanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
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Author | : Edmund Fanning |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2015-08-13 |
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ISBN | : 9781296833176 |
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Author | : Edmund FANNING (American Navigator.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Edmund Fanning |
Publisher | : New York : Collins & Hannay |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edmund Fanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Henry Oehser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Max Quanchi |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2005-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810865289 |
The South Seas, as this region used to be called, conjured up images of adventure, belles and savages, romance and fabulous fortunes, but the long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were really an exercise in amazing logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. A series on global exploration and discovery would not be complete without this book by Quanchi and Robson. It is ambitious and informative and includes the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook and Dampier, as well as the intriguing stories of the Bounty Mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia and Davis Land. There are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography offers a guide to further reading. There are more than just dry facts in this book. It has a whiff of salt air, the clash of empires, cross-cultural beach encounters and personal adventure.
Author | : Ernest Stanley Dodge |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1452908222 |
"Islands and Empires "was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first one-volume account of the massive impact of Western civilization on the Pacific Islands and the Far East, principally China and Japan. The effects on the two areas were very different since, in the case of the islands, contact was with peoples who were still in the Stone Age, while in the Far East Westerners came up against sophisticated civilizations more ancient and mature than their own. Because of these differences, the book is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the Pacific Islands and the second with the East Asian mainland. Reverse influences--those of the Eastern cultures on the West--are also discussed.
Author | : Edmund Fanning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : |
"Fanning ... first sailed to the South Seas on a voyage for seal skins on the Betsey in May 1797. During the next 25 years he either captained or directed over 70 voyages in the Pacific and around the globe, personally visiting China, Australia, Fiji, and the Marquesas. In 1798 he discovered both Fanning and Palmyra Islands ... In 1829 Fanning was instrumental in sending out an exploring expedition under the command of Captain Benjamin Pendleton and Nathaniel Brown Palmer. It was Fanning's petition to Congress and largely his own personal efforts that led to the Congressional Act of May 14, 1836 ... authorizing the fitting out of the United State Exploring Expedition (now generally referred to as the Wilkes Expedition"--Forbes, David W. Hawaiian national bibliography
Author | : Ben Maddison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317319427 |
Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.