Great Voyages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Voyages write by Deborah Patterson. This book was released on 2018-04-24. Great Voyages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover the world through the eyes of the greatest explorers in history. Find out how the world was first circumnavigated by a slave and how travelers overcame the challenge of not having enough to eat and drink while traveling through unknown territory. Experience the excitement of seeing a new land for the first time, tasting new fruits and discovering new animals. This book focuses on 15 key voyages from around the world: the journeys undertaken by Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Zheng He, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Maria Sibylla Merian, Captain Cook, Lewis & Clark, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Gertrude Bell, Ernest Shackleton, and astronauts who took part in the Moon landings.
Great Voyages in Small Boats
Great Voyages in Small Boats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Voyages in Small Boats write by Vito Dumas. This book was released on 1976. Great Voyages in Small Boats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
New Worlds
New Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Worlds write by Ronald H. Fritze. This book was released on 2002. New Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating narrative history of the great voyages of discovery, and is the only book of its kind to span the crucial period 1400-1600 in one readable book.
The Great Voyages of Zheng He
The Great Voyages of Zheng He - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Voyages of Zheng He write by Song Nan Zhang. This book was released on 2005-01-01. The Great Voyages of Zheng He available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the life and accomplishments of the leader of China's naval fleet in the early fifteenth century.
The Great South Sea
The Great South Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great South Sea write by Glyndwr Williams. This book was released on 1997-01-01. The Great South Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.
