The Mystique of the Northwest Passage - 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 Mystique of the Northwest Passage write by Bożenna Chylińska. This book was released on 2019-01-14. The Mystique of the Northwest Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections based on the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesillas. Despite this, an imaginary Northwest Passage to the wealth and markets of the Far East captured the attention of Elizabethan merchants and navigators searching for an alternative sea route to Asia to challenge the Portuguese and Spanish commerce monopoly. The core of the book is Sir Martin Frobisher’s three Arctic voyages of 1576–78, intended to connect the Protestant focus on wealth acquisition with the territorial expansion. Although Frobisher’s venture lacked opportunities for advancement, he marked his place in history by creating a fascination for the mythical Northwest Passage and an interest in North America. The book is based on the eyewitness accounts of the expeditions’ captains, and will appeal to a large audience, from teachers and students in the general humanities to those specifically interested in language, literature, and trans-Atlantic and Renaissance studies.
Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage - 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 Northwest Passage write by Edward Struzik. This book was released on 1991. Northwest Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the successes and failures of legendary explorers, including Martin Frobisher, John Davis, William Edward Parry and John Franklin. Includes maps, archival prints and photographs, and colour photographs giving a contemporary view of the region's wildlife, landscape and people.
Tugboats to Remember
Tugboats to Remember - 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 Tugboats to Remember write by Austin Dwyer. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Tugboats to Remember available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fine collection of extraordinary stories and stunning illustrations recount the harrowing rescues of ships and cities in distress. “The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.” —Henry Major Tomlinson
The Six-gun Mystique Sequel
The Six-gun Mystique Sequel - 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 Six-gun Mystique Sequel write by John G. Cawelti. This book was released on 1999. The Six-gun Mystique Sequel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To this structural analysis he adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Strange and Dangerous Dreams
Strange and Dangerous Dreams - 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 Strange and Dangerous Dreams write by Geoff Powter. This book was released on 2006-08-01. Strange and Dangerous Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * Explores the darker psychological drama behind the exploits of eleven adventurers, famous and lesser-known * Written by a practicing clinical psychologist * Accounts include heretofore unpublished information provided by archival witnesses, friends, and family Every culture, in every era, has its adventure myths: The golden hero willing to walk through fire elevates us all beyond our fears and limits. But more often than readily seen, there are darker reasons for dangerous pursuits. Where falls the line between adventure and madness? Geoff Powter, a practicing clinical psychologist, looks into the stories of eleven troubled adventurers, divided into three categories: The Burdened, The Bent, and The Lost. * Polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott has been called a "willing martyr" ready to die for the mystical deliverance of adventure. * Meriwether Lewis, convinced that he had failed to achieve the objectives set by mentor and father figure, Thomas Jefferson, died by his own hand. * Maurice Wilson's plan for climbing Everest included deliberately crashing his plane as high as possible on the mountain. * Jean Batten was a remarkably driven early aviator whose clothes and make-up were always more perfect than her flying technique. * Polar balloonist Solomon Andrée was certain that his rigorous understanding of scientific principles would overcome any challenge posed by nature or equipment failure. * Aleister Crowley, a brilliant mountaineer who founded the Golden Dawn cult, was labeled pathologically, and even fatally, arrogant. In each of these stories, darkness of some kind -- ambition, ego, a thirst for redemption, the need to please others -- carried these characters in a perilous direction. In the end, understanding these difficult but utterly human stories helps us comprehend the deepest purpose and allure of adventure, and, ultimately, to more honestly measure ourselves.
