The Oxford Book of Exploration - 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 Oxford Book of Exploration write by Robin Hanbury-Tenison. This book was released on 2005. The Oxford Book of Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Exploration
Exploration - 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 Exploration write by Stewart Angas Weaver. This book was released on 2015. Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration
The Oxford Companion to World Exploration - 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 Oxford Companion to World Exploration write by David Buiisseret (ed). This book was released on 2007. The Oxford Companion to World Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains cross-referenced articles--arranged alphabetically from Antoine d'Abbadie to Longitude--on topics of land, space, and sea exploration and provides biographical profiles of notable explorers throughout history.
Approaching the End
Approaching the End - 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 Approaching the End write by David Albert Jones. This book was released on 2007-08-30. Approaching the End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Albert Jones considers two basic questions: how can we live well in the face of death? and when, if ever, is it legitimate deliberately to bring human life to an end? He focuses upon the distinct theological approaches to death shown by four outstanding Christian thinkers: Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Rahner. Jones's aim is not primarily to make a contribution to the history of theology, but rather, through engagement with the thought of theologians of the past, to reflect on some of the practical and existential issues that the approach of death presents for all of us.
The Ottoman Age of Exploration
The Ottoman Age of Exploration - 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 Ottoman Age of Exploration write by Giancarlo Casale. This book was released on 2010-02-25. The Ottoman Age of Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade routes of maritime Asia. The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca, and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state during the sixteenth century. It does so through a dramatic recounting of the lives of sultans and viziers, spies, corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune, and women from the imperial harem. Challenging traditional narratives of Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the Portuguese in the game of global politics by using sea power, dynastic prestige, and commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial dominion throughout the Indian Ocean.
