Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery - 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 Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery write by Peter C. Mancall. This book was released on 2006. Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a primary source collection of narratives about the travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century.
Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000)
Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) - 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 Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) write by John Block Friedman. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Routledge Revivals: Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages (2000) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.
Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning - 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 Dead Reckoning write by Helen Whybrow. This book was released on 2005. Dead Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are few thrills as exciting as weather at its worst. We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest, or snowiest on record. Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of global warming? The facts are in this book. Extensively illustrated with colour photographs of some of the most extreme weather ever captured on camera, more than fifty colour maps, and tables of weather records for over three hundred U.S. cities, this book is both an entertainment and an indispensable reference. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow rollers, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, falls of fish and toads, ball lightning, super bolts, and other strange meteorological events. Here's the must-have book for Weather Channel and Guinness Book of World Records fans.
Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe
Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe - 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 Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe write by Peter Mancall. This book was released on 2007. Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of five essays and a critical introduction present recent interpretations of travelers and their narratives in the early modern world, with particular attention to the relationship between the act of travel and descriptions of it.
The Book of Exploration
The 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 Book of Exploration write by Raymond John Howgego. This book was released on 2009-10-27. The Book of Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Book of Exploration is a chronological tour of the history of exploration by an expert in the field and prolific world traveller, from the pioneering excursions of the ancient Egyptians to the first surface-based crossings of the top and bottom of the world." "Before the turn of the nineteenth century, ventures into uncharted lands required material or spiritual reward to justify the perils of shipwreck, hostile natives, and dangers yet unknown. Until recent times, exploration for the sake of knowledge alone was rare; it was mostly undertaken by intrepid traders, gold. seekers, and valiant Christian missionaries. The Book of Exploration presents more than 150 of the most influential and unusual journeys of discovery, setting each firmly in its historical context. Roy Howgego introduces heroic adventurers battling the elements and committing their findings to journals and maps, pioneers who risked everything in search of fabled riches, and explorers determined to conquer the deserts, poles, and oceans of the globe." "Organized chronologically, beautifully illustrated with contemporary maps, paintings, journal entries, and other artifacts, The Book of Exploration is a feast for the eye and an unparalleled resource." --Book Jacket.
