This book explores the role of geographys five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombuss second voyage....Loe edasi...
The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in maritime history....Loe edasi...
This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 17671820....Loe edasi...
This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 17671820....Loe edasi...
Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and e...Loe edasi...
The Russians in the Arctic (1958) examines Soviet attitudes towards the Arctic, its exploration and opening for exploitation, and the impact of Soviet rule and policies on the peoples native to the vast Siberian wilderness....Loe edasi...
J. David Knottnerus compares failed and successful polar expeditions in terms of participation in ritual practices and the psychological health of crews, finding that work practices, religious activities, games, parties are all extremely important i...Loe edasi...
This volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental huma...Loe edasi...
This book brings together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to Europe as well as their cultural implications....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1868, this book follows the life of Prince Henry, including chapters on the Siege of Tangier, the capture of Ceuta and the death of Prince Henry....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1875 and reissued in 1973, analyses the evidence from the works of Chinese historians that explorers from China had discovered a country they called Fusang western America, in all probability Mexico. The basis for thei...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985. This book traces the explorations and achievements of those who undertook missions of as extensions of their patrons eyes. The fascination and wide-ranging story is told with full scholarly documentation and many new i...Loe edasi...
The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has made significant contributions to scholarship. The publications translated and reproduced here reflect continuing academic demand for Pacific voyaging texts and context....Loe edasi...
This book is concerned with impressions of Arabic culture on the British before the First World War. More particularly, it is concerned with three Victorian travellers, all of whom knew Arabic culture first hand through their travels in the Middle a...Loe edasi...
When this book was first published in 1958, Arabia was even then one of the least known corners of the globe. The foreigner was strictly forbidden from entering, except those with the Imams personal consent, and then under close supervision. To Hans...Loe edasi...
These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture....Loe edasi...
Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other....Loe edasi...
Following his participation in James Cooks circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the Briti...Loe edasi...
Following his participation in James Cooks circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the Briti...Loe edasi...
Following his participation in James Cooks circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the Briti...Loe edasi...
Following his participation in James Cooks circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the Briti...Loe edasi...
Following his participation in James Cooks circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the Briti...Loe edasi...
Demonstrates that medieval men and women were curious about the world around them; and they wanted to hear about distant lands and the various people who inhabited them. This title illustrates how travellers reports in turn shaped the European resp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195377828)
The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and...Loe edasi...
A part of a series of books concerned with the Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of Discoveries. This book contains chapters covering the Portuguese arrival in Sri Lanka, and their first encounters with the island and its peoples, thei...Loe edasi...
In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195162431)
In this work, Dan Botkin, leading ecologist, follows the course of the Lewis and Clark expedition, eco-region by eco-region, showing the land and environment that the expedition explored, and how the personal qualities and preconceptions that Lewis...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. Editor from University of Otago, New Zealand....Loe edasi...
The first part of the book is a straightforward account of the authors personal experiences. The second part is a detailed treatise on the customs of the Tupinambá, their polity, trade, religion, manufactures and warlike undertakings....Loe edasi...
The journal of the Lander brothers provides a narrative of one of the most important missions of exploration in the history of West Africa....Loe edasi...
Collecting together sources such as letters, official documents and personal accounts, this volume charts the Portuguese discovery and settlement within East Africa from the late fifteenth- to the seventeenth century....Loe edasi...
These papers explore various aspects of travel in the Byzantine period. They range from an interest in individual travellers to studies covering the technical aspects of travel, especially by sea. The conclusion is that travel at this time was enjoy...Loe edasi...
In 1513 the Portuguese established a maritime route to China. Their motives were a combination of a quest for trade and territory, and a desire to promote Christianity. This is a selection of accounts by contemporary travellers, merchants, missionar...Loe edasi...
This book explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and set up links with Africa, Asia and the Americas....Loe edasi...
Scattered in tiny enclaves from Africa to Japan, Portuguese Asia included Mocambique, Goa, Macau and Nagasaki. This collection of essays relates the history of Portuguese exploration, colonization and trade in this region during the 16th and 17th ce...Loe edasi...
An analysis of the transformation of the mediaeval European image of the world in the period following the great discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries. It focuses on geography, cartography and nautical science, addressing topics such as the con...Loe edasi...
This work takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at geographies that have been lost. It discusses Medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui and the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples, offering students an alt...Loe edasi...
An essay concerning the history of travel literature, both real and imaginary, from classical times, via early accounts of the New world, to the accounts of the South Seas that lay beyond. An account of the Mutiny on the Bounty, and discussions of a...Loe edasi...
Second revised edition with a new introduction and bibliographical essay surveying recent work and new research in this area. This is a book about Medieval Europes encounter with the wider world between 1000 and 1500, covering the journeys of Marc...Loe edasi...
This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery....Loe edasi...
Published to mark the 700th anniversary of Marco Polos journey, this work questions whether he ever reached China, the country he described in his book A Description of the World. It examines the Polo family history, Marco Polos activities as a...Loe edasi...
These essays deal with questions of navigation and, more broadly, the intellectual challenges posed by Spains acquisition of an empire across the Atlantic....Loe edasi...
