The Voyage of John de Verazzano - 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 Voyage of John de Verazzano write by Giovanni Da Verrazzano. This book was released on 2010-01-01. The Voyage of John de Verazzano available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Voyage of John De Verazzano, written 1524, was a letter to King Francis the I of France by Giovanni (or John) da Verrazzano upon his exploration of North Carolina and the Pamlico Sound, which he thought was the entrance to the Pacific Ocean. His analysis resulted in one of many errors in the way North America was represented on a map; it was not fully and correctly mapped until the late 1800s. The letter, translated from its original Italian, provides an interesting insight into how the newly-discovered continent was viewed by explorers and other countries. Also included is an account, in Italian, of Verazzano's discovery of New York Harbor.GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485-1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, the first European since the colonization of the Americas by the Norse colonies to explore the Atlantic coast. Born near Florence, he soon moved to France and started a career as a navigator, after which he was invited to explore North America by the French King Francis I. Throughout his years, he explored New York Harbor, Narragansett Bay, the coast of Maine, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Florida, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles. Verrazzano made a total of three trips, dying in 1528 after embarking on an island and being killed and eaten by the local Carib cannibals.
Verrazano's voyage along the Atlantic coast of North America
Verrazano's voyage along the Atlantic coast of North America - 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 Verrazano's voyage along the Atlantic coast of North America write by G. da Verrazzano. This book was released on 1916. Verrazano's voyage along the Atlantic coast of North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier - 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 Voyages of Jacques Cartier write by Ramsay Cook. This book was released on 2017-05-24. The Voyages of Jacques Cartier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jacques Cartier's voyages of 1534, 1535, and 1541constitute the first record of European impressions of the St Lawrence region of northeastern North American and its peoples. The Voyages are rich in details about almost every aspect of the region's environment and the people who inhabited it. As Ramsay Cook points out in his introduction, Cartier was more than an explorer; he was also Canada's first ethnographer. His accounts provide a wealth of information about the native people of the region and their relations with each other. Indirectly, he also reveals much about himself and about sixteenth-century European attitudes and beliefs. These memoirs recount not only the French experience with the Iroquois, but alo the Iroquois' discovery of the French. In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English. Ramsay Cook's introduction, 'Donnacona Discovers Europe,' rereads the documents in the light of recent scholarship as well as from contemporary perspectives in order to understand better the viewpoints of Cartier and the native people with whom he came into contact.
Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent
Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent - 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 Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent write by Richard Hakluyt. This book was released on 1850. Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Voyage Long and Strange
A Voyage Long and Strange - 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 A Voyage Long and Strange write by Tony Horwitz. This book was released on 2008-04-29. A Voyage Long and Strange available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
