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True Spirit - The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World (Paperback,... True Spirit - The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who Sailed Solo, Nonstop, and Unassisted Around the World (Paperback, Original)
Jessica Watson
R524 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On May 15, 2010, after 210 days at sea and more than 22,000 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her 33-foot boat triumphantly back to land. She had done it. She was the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted, and nonstop around the world.
Jessica spent years preparing for this moment, years focused on achieving her dream. Yet only eight months before, she collided with a 63,000-ton freighter. It seemed to many that she'd failed before she'd even begun, but Jessica brushed herself off, held her head high, and kept going.
Told in Jessica's own words, "True Spirit "is the story of her epic voyage. It tells how a young girl, once afraid of everything, decided to test herself on an extraordinary adventure that included gale-force winds, mountainous waves, hazardous icebergs, and extreme loneliness on a vast sea, with no land in sight and no help close at hand. "True Spirit "is an inspiring story of risk, guts, determination, and achievement that ultimately proves we all have the power to live our dreams--no matter how big or small.

Women, Mission and Church in Uganda - Ethnographic Encounters in an Age of Imperialism, 1895-1960s (Hardcover): Elizabeth Dimock Women, Mission and Church in Uganda - Ethnographic Encounters in an Age of Imperialism, 1895-1960s (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Dimock
R4,329 Discovery Miles 43 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire. Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities, the gender relations in those societies and relations between the British Protectorate administration and Ugandan Christian women are all explored in detail. The analysis is offset by the author's experience of working in Uganda at the close of British Protectorate status in the 1960s, employed by the Uganda Government Education Department in a school founded by the Uganda Mission.

In The South Seas Hb (Paperback): Robert Louis Stevenson In The South Seas Hb (Paperback)
Robert Louis Stevenson
R1,557 Discovery Miles 15 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2005. In the South Seas is the story of Louis's travels through the Pacificon the Casco and later on the schooner Equator. It is a beautifully observed account of island peoples and their life, but above all it is the story of the beginning of Louis's love affair with the Pacific.

In Far Japan: Glympses (Paperback): Frank H. Hedges In Far Japan: Glympses (Paperback)
Frank H. Hedges
R1,085 R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Save R264 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2006. These unique sketches of Japan and Japanese life were written by Frank Hughes. foreign correspondent of the London Times, Christian Science Monitor and the Washington Post. Shrines, mountains, traditional drums, misty rains and the shrill wailing of Shinto music come to life in Hedges' brief, lyrical descriptions and lovers of Japan are sure to be overwhelmed by memory.

Gleanings In Buddha-Fields (Paperback): Hearn Gleanings In Buddha-Fields (Paperback)
Hearn
R1,493 Discovery Miles 14 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Year Amongst The Persians (Paperback): Brown Year Amongst The Persians (Paperback)
Brown
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Franz Josef Land Archipelago - E.B.Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899 (Paperback,... The Franz Josef Land Archipelago - E.B.Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899 (Paperback, illustrated Edition)
E.B. Baldwin; Volume editing by P.J. Capelotti
R1,589 R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Save R484 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873, and remains little known today. A few intrepid explorers ventured there in the late 19th century as a stepping-stone in attempts to reach the North Pole. Chicago journalist Walter Wellman led the first American expedition to the archipelago as part of a polar expedition in 1898-1899. His second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, kept a journal documenting their trip. This previously unpublished journal reveals much about one of the last great periods of exploration - including the violence, chicanery, and racism that characterized much of American exploration and expansion. Baldwin's journal, reproduced here, paints a more realistic picture of the expedition than did Wellman's communiques sent home for mass consumption. Correspondence between Baldwin and Wellman is included, and expedition notes list the supplies carried, descriptions of geographic features observed in the course of the trip, and the doctor's notes on treatments, remedies and supplies. Editor P.J. Capelotti provides an extended introduction, and the text is illustrated with maps, depictions of dramatic events occurring on the trip, and several photographs.

Notes For Travellers In Egypt (Paperback): Budge Notes For Travellers In Egypt (Paperback)
Budge
R1,060 Discovery Miles 10 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Weighing the World - The Quest to Measure the Earth (Hardcover): Edwin Danson Weighing the World - The Quest to Measure the Earth (Hardcover)
Edwin Danson
R1,900 Discovery Miles 19 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Weighing the World is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the scientific events leading to modern map making written by one of the world's master surveyors. Edwin Danson, using a similar approach to his earlier best seller, "Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Important Border in America" (Wiley, 2000) takes us on a journey telling the story of this experiment that has not been written about in over two hundred years. National jealousies, commercial and political rivalry were the underlying causes for many of the eighteenth century's wars but war also provided the stimulus for much commercial effort and scientific innovation. Armies equipped with the latest weaponry marched about the countryside, led by generals with only the vaguest of maps at their disposal. At the start of the century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. While there were plenty of atlases and sketch maps of countries, regions and districts, with few exceptions they were imperfect renditions in nature. No one knew, with any certainty the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or was it solid? Were the Andes the highest mountain on the Earth or was it the peak of Tenerife? Was the Earth a perfect sphere or was it slightly squashed as Sir Isaac Newton prophesized? Just how did you accurately measure the planet? The answers to these and other questions about the nature of the Earth, answers we now take for granted, were complete mysteries. Danson presents the stories of the scientists and scholars that had to scale the Andes, cut through tropical forests and how they handled the hardships they faced in the attempt to revolutionize our understanding of the planet.

British Narratives of Exploration - Case Studies on the Self and Other (Paperback): Frederic Regard British Narratives of Exploration - Case Studies on the Self and Other (Paperback)
Frederic Regard
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.

The Quest for the Northwest Passage - Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806 (Paperback): Frederic Regard The Quest for the Northwest Passage - Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806 (Paperback)
Frederic Regard
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage - the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.

Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century - Discovering the Northwest Passage (Paperback): Frederic Regard Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century - Discovering the Northwest Passage (Paperback)
Frederic Regard
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.

Islandology - Geography, Rhetoric, Politics (Hardcover): Marc Shell Islandology - Geography, Rhetoric, Politics (Hardcover)
Marc Shell
R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Islandology" is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland), explains the location of military hot-spots and great cities (Hormuz and Manhattan), and sheds new light on dozens of world-historical productions whose motivating islandic aspect has not heretofore been recognized (Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung"). Written by Shell in view of the melting of the world's great ice islands, "Islandology" shows not only new ways that we think about islands but also why and how we think by means of them.

The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 - Scientists, Naturalists, Artists and Others Document America's Last Frontier... The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 - Scientists, Naturalists, Artists and Others Document America's Last Frontier (Paperback)
John J. Michalik
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1899, one of America's wealthiest men gathered together an interdisciplinary team of experts--many who would become legendary in their fields--to join him, entirely at his expense, on a voyage to the largely unknown territory of Alaska. The Harriman Expedition was, and remains to this day, unprecedented in its conception and execution. This book traces the story of the expedition: where they went, what they did, and what they learned--including finding early evidence of glacial retreat, assessing the nature and future of Alaska's natural resources, and making important scientific discoveries, including the accumulation of an astonishing collection of specimens. A second thread involves the lives and accomplishments of the members of the party: weaving multiple biographical strands into the narrative of the journey and the personal experiences that they shared in their odyssey in Alaskan waters. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the Harriman Alaska Expedition since the 1980s. It features the diaries, letters home, and post-Expedition writings, including unpublished autobiographies, generated by the members of the party.

Nature's Government - Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World (Hardcover, New): Richard... Nature's Government - Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World (Hardcover, New)
Richard Drayton
R2,167 Discovery Miles 21 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Nature's Government' is a daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism. It shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the twentieth century, led to complex kinds of knowledge. Science, and botany in particular, was fed by information culled from the exploration of the globe. At the same time science was useful to imperialism: it guided the exploitation of exotic environments and made conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and beneficial. Drayton traces the history of this idea of 'improvement' from its Christian agrarian origins in the sixteenth century to its inclusion in theories of enlightened despotism. It was as providers of legitimacy, as much as of universal knowledge, aesthetic perfection, and agricultural plenty, he argues, that botanic gardens became instruments of government, first in Continental Europe, and by the late eighteenth century, in Britain and the British Empire. At the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the rise of which throughout the nineteenth century is a central theme of this book, a pioneering scientific institution was added to a spectacular ornamental garden. At Kew, 'improving' the world became a potent argument for both the patronage of science at home and Britain's prerogatives abroad. 'Nature's Government' provides a portrait of how the ambitions of the Enlightenment shaped the great age of British power, and how empire changed the British experience and the modern world. Richard Drayton was born in the Caribbean and educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. A former Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he has also been Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

German Science in the Age of Empire - Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers (Hardcover): Moritz von Brescius German Science in the Age of Empire - Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers (Hardcover)
Moritz von Brescius
R3,308 Discovery Miles 33 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s. It argues that German scientists, lacking in this period a formal empire of their own, seized the opportunity presented by other imperial systems to observe, record, collect and loot manuscripts, maps, and museological artefacts that shaped European understandings of the East. Drawing on archival research in three continents, von Brescius vividly explores the dynamics and conflicts of transcultural exploration beyond colonial frontiers in Asia. Analysing the contested careers of these imperial outsiders, he reveals significant changes in the culture of gentlemanly science, the violent negotiation of scientific authority in a transnational arena, and the transition from Humboldtian enquiry to a new disciplinary order. This book offers a new understanding of German science and its role in shaping foreign empires, and provides a revisionist account of the questions of authority and of authenticity in reportage from distant sites.

Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell (Paperback): Kevin Jackson Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell (Paperback)
Kevin Jackson
R310 R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Save R23 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Geographers, v. 16 - Biobibliographical Studies (Paperback): Geoffrey J. Martin Geographers, v. 16 - Biobibliographical Studies (Paperback)
Geoffrey J. Martin
R4,568 Discovery Miles 45 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography or geographical thought. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life, work and discusses their influence and spread of academic work.

Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo - of Benin to Soccatoo... Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo - of Benin to Soccatoo (Paperback)
H. Clapperton
R1,813 Discovery Miles 18 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This account was first published in 1829. After serving in the Royal Navy in Canada, Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) participated in two expeditions to the interior of Africa. Richard Lander (1804-34), a young Cornishman who had travelled widely in the service of previous employers, applied to accompany him on the second expedition, during which Clapperton died. Lander published this edition of Clapperton's journal in 1829; an expanded version (also available in this series) appeared the following year. Clapperton's account of his experiences is informal, lively and vivid, describing hospitality and annoyances, discomforts and pleasures. Although its language and attitudes are typical of the early colonial period, it remains a valuable source for West African history. The book also contains a short biography of Clapperton, Lander's emotional account of his master's illness and death, and his journal of his lonely return journey. The appendix includes meteorological observations, notes on Arabic documents, and Yoruba vocabulary.

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820 (SET) (Hardcover): Neil Chambers The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820 (SET) (Hardcover)
Neil Chambers
R28,642 Discovery Miles 286 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After James Cook's voyage in HMS Endeavour, Banks developed a network of scientists and explorers. Banks's correspondence is one of the great primary sources for studying the Pacific region during this important period of exploration and colonial expansion.

Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21 (Hardcover, New): R. Bulkeley Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21 (Hardcover, New)
R. Bulkeley
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the little studied story of Bellingshausen, and includes the fullest biography of the celebrated Russian explorer ever published. By translating the official reports and other eye-witness documents from the first scientific expedition to the Antarctic of the nineteenth century, conducted 47 years after James Cook's pioneering venture in the 1770s, Bulkeley transports the reader onto HIMS "Vostok," one of the most celebrated ships in the history of the Russian Navy. While her seamen marvel at the aurora and her astronomer is nearly blown overboard in a storm, her intrepid commander tacks his ship between the ice floes in zero visibility, with only the menacing sound of the breakers to guide him. The largely unknown history of the Bellingshausen voyage is comprehensively explored, with thoughtful discussion of the achievements and limitations of the expedition and suggestions for further research.

Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920 (Hardcover): Ben Maddison Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920 (Hardcover)
Ben Maddison
R4,934 Discovery Miles 49 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.

The White Nile (Paperback): Alan Moorehead The White Nile (Paperback)
Alan Moorehead
R503 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nile remains a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with incredible historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama.

The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 6 - Letters 1801-1805 (Hardcover): Neil Chambers The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 6 - Letters 1801-1805 (Hardcover)
Neil Chambers
R5,860 Discovery Miles 58 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scientists and explorers. His correspondence shows how he developed effective working links with the British Admiralty and with the generation of naval officers who sailed after Cook.

Ending in Ice - Alfred Wegener's Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition (Hardcover): Roger M. McCoy Ending in Ice - Alfred Wegener's Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition (Hardcover)
Roger M. McCoy
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An old truism holds that a scientific discovery has three stages: first, people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally, they credit the wrong person. Alfred Wegener's "discovery" of continental drift went through each stage with unusual drama. In 1915, when he published his theory that the world's continents had once come together in a single landmass before splitting apart and drifting to their current positions, the world's geologists denied and scorned it. The scientific establishment's rejection of continental drift and plate tectonic theory is a story told often and well. Yet, there is an untold side to Wegener's life: he and his famous father-in-law, Wladimir Koppen (a climatologist whose classification of climates is still in use), became fascinated with climates of the geologic past. In the early 20th century Wegener made four expeditions to the then-uncharted Greenland icecap to gather data about climate variations (Greenland ice-core sampling continues to this day). Ending in Ice is about Wegener's explorations of Greenland, blending the science of ice ages and Wegener's continental drift measurements with the story of Wegener's fatal expedition trying to bring desperately needed food and fuel to workers at the central Greenland ice station of Eismitte in 1930. Arctic exploration books with tragic endings have become all too common, but this book combines Wegener's fatal adventures in Greenland with the relevant science--now more important than ever as global climate change becomes movie-worthy ("The Day After Tomorrow").

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