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A century before Columbus arrived in America, two brothers from
Venice are said to have explored parts of the New World. They
became legends during the Renaissance, and then the source of a
great scandal that would discredit their story. Today, they have
been largely forgotten.
In this very original work--part history, part travelogue--Andrea
di Robilant chronicles his discovery of a travel narrative
published in 1558 by the Venetian statesman Nicolo Zen. The text
and its fascinating nautical map re-created the travels of two of
the author's ancestors, brothers who claimed to have explored the
North Atlantic in the 1380s and 1390s. Di Robilant sets out to
discover why the Zens' account later came under attack as one of
the greatest frauds in geographical history. Was their map--and
even their journey--partially or perhaps entirely faked?
Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one
of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often
been overshadowed by the tragedy that befell Scott. Their tents
were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed
to pick up the members of Scott's Northern Party as planned.
Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter.
Stranded and desperate, Lieutenant Victor Campbell and his five
companions faced disaster. They burrowed inside a snowdrift,
digging an ice cave with no room to stand upright, but space for
six sleeping bags on the floor--the three officers on one side, the
three seamen on the other. Circumstances forced them closer
together, their roles blurred, and a shared sense of reality
emerged. This mutual suffering made them indivisible and somehow
they made it through the longest winter. To the south, the men
waiting at headquarters knew that Scott and his Polar party must be
dead and hoped that another six lives would not be added to the
death toll. Working from diaries, journals, and letters written by
expedition members, Meredith Hooper tells the intensely human story
of Scott's other expedition.
""Know your enemies, know yourself"", advised Sun Zi in his famous
Art of War (AoW). In contrast, the legendary Admiral Zheng He would
have said, ""Know your collaborators, know yourself"", and this
would be the essence of his Art of Collaboration (AoC). This book
offers a fresh new approach to doing business and providing
leadership in the twenty-first century, where Zheng He's peaceful
and win-win collaborative paradigm present in his AoC provides an
alternative to the aggressive and antagonistic mindset inherent in
Sun Zi's AoW. The author has culled from the existing literature on
the historical, cultural, diplomatic, and maritime-oriented Zheng
He, connected the dots of his discovery of a managerial Zheng He,
and wrote this book to present both the big message of Zheng He's
Art of Collaboration as well as an understanding of Zheng He's
specific work as a leader and manager.
Title: Morocco and the Moors: being an account of travels, with a
general description of the country and its people.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft.
This collection reflects the changing perceptions of Western
historians, travellers, traders, and others surveying the Middle
East. Texts and first-person travelogues include illustrated
volumes. Other works focus on the earlier history of Persian and
Arabic areas of the world. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Leared, Arthur;
1876. 8 . 010096.ff.2.
Title: The West Indies: the natural and physical history of the
Windward and Leeward Colonies; with some account of the moral,
social, and political condition of their inhabitants, immediately
before and after the abolition of negro slavery.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical,
commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and
South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters,
and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples,
and the natural and built environments that have fascinated
historians for centuries. Along with written records, the
collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions
spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern
hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Halliday, Andrew;
1837. 12 . 1050.l.21.
Title: An account of the Arctic regions: with a history and
description of the northern whale-fishery.Author: William
ScoresbyPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on
Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets,
serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their
discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original
accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward
expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin
Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western
hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores
of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of
the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North,
Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection
highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture,
contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides
access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02965202CollectionID:
CTRG99-B1032PublicationDate: 18200101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Includes meteorological and magnetic data.
Chronological list of Arctic voyages, 861-1819: p. 54-71 of
appendix in v. 1. Includes index.Collation: 2 v.: ill. (some
folded), maps (3 folded); 22 cm
Title: An account of the Arctic regions: with a history and
description of the northern whale-fishery.Author: William
ScoresbyPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on
Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets,
serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their
discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original
accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward
expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin
Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western
hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores
of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of
the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North,
Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection
highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture,
contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides
access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02965201CollectionID:
CTRG99-B1032PublicationDate: 18200101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Includes meteorological and magnetic data.
Chronological list of Arctic voyages, 861-1819: p. 54-71 of
appendix in v. 1. Includes index.Collation: 2 v.: ill. (some
folded), maps (3 folded); 22 cm
Title: A journal of transactions and events during a residence of
nearly sixteen years on the coast of Labrador: containing many
interesting particulars, both of the country and its inhabitants,
not hitherto known.Author: George CartwrightPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04083302CollectionID:
CTRG02-B800PublicationDate: 17920101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 3 v.: ill., fold. map, port., fold. chart
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the
Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous
generations.
A detailed description of Hovell and Hume's early 19th Century
explorations in Victoria, Australia (now the location of
Melbourne).
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the years 1858, 1859,
1860, 1861, and 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and
successfully crossed it from sea to sea. Fully illustrated
Deserts - vast, empty places where time appears to stand still. The
very word conjures images of endless seas of sand, blistering heat
and a virtual absence of life. However, deserts encompass a large
variety of landscapes and life beyond our stereotypes. As well as
magnificent Saharan dunes under blazing sun, the desert concept
encompasses the intensely cold winters of the Gobi, the snow-
covered expanse of Antarctica and the rock- strewn drylands of
Pakistan. Deserts are environments in perpetual flux and home to
peoples as diverse as their surroundings, peoples who grapple with
a broad spectrum of cultural, political and environmental issues as
they wrest livelihoods from marginal lands. The cultures,
environments and histories of deserts, while fundamentally
entangled, are rarely studied as part of a network. To bring
different disciplines together, the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary
Deserts Conference in March 2010 brought together a wide range of
researchers from backgrounds as varied as physics, history,
archaeology anthropology, geology and geography. This volume draws
on the diversity of papers presented to give an overview of current
research in deserts and drylands. Readers are invited to explore
the wide range of desert environments and peoples and the
ever-evolving challenges they face.
In "Perilous Paths," author George G. McClellan seamlessly
combines history, biography, and story as he narrates the early
history of our country's movement from the east to the west through
the eyes of Robert McClellan as he experiences successes and
failures along the way.
This story focuses on one small but important piece of the
history after the Revolutionary War. It tells of real, rugged men
like McClellan-a son of Ulster Scots immigrants born near
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1770-who performed tasks in harsh
conditions that would be considered dangerous, even foolhardy,
today. Perilous Paths follows the footsteps made by McClellan from
his youthful days as an army packer to his exploits as an Indian
scout, army ranger, and spy. It details how he fought alongside
Lewis and Clark, gained an education in reading and arithmetic for
the army quartermaster corps, and then moved west to Missouri and
succumbed to the lure of the unknown, entering Indian country where
he trapped furs and traded with the Indians of what would
eventually become the American Midwest.
Marking the trials, tribulations and hardships, this history
highlights McClellan's independence of character, the hardships he
faced, and his desperate survival against unknown odds with a
rugged determination to succeed.
Z. A. Mudge (1813 88) was an American pastor, author and Arctic
exploration enthusiast. After the success of his popular books
North Pole Voyages and Arctic Heroes, he wrote this book on the
Western Union Telegraph Expedition. In the mid-nineteenth century
the Western Union Telegraph Company decided to create a telegraph
line that would run from San Francisco, California to Moscow,
Russia. The line was to run through Alaska and Siberia, and
although the project was abandoned in 1867, a large amount of
Arctic exploration had been achieved in the meantime. This book,
first published in 1880, is Mudge's compilation of the accounts of
some of the explorers who were involved in different stages of the
expedition, including the naturalist W. H. Dall during his
exploration in Alaska. Mudge goes on to include the Siberian
experiences of George Kennan and W. H. Bush (whose own account is
also reissued in this series).
In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route
to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between
Greenland and Canada. This collection of papers was published in
1875, with the aim of being 'useful to the officers of the [British
Arctic] expedition' leaving later that year. The book is divided
into two sections: geographical observations by the likes of
Admiral Collinson, who led the 1850 expedition in search of John
Franklin, and ethnographic observations, including accounts of the
Inuit and their language. Unfortunately, it does not include the
one piece of information that might have most helped the
expedition: they took concentrated lime juice to combat scurvy, but
the concentrating process removed the essential Vitamin C. The
expedition was ultimately a failure in its aim of reaching the
Pole, but this collection is a unique record of the sum of the
knowledge accumulated by that time.
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) established his
reputation as an Arctic explorer on voyages with Ross and Belcher,
undertaking long and dangerous sledge journeys charting the
territory. McClintock's account of his 1857-9 expedition on the
yacht Fox through the North-West Passage to discover the fate of
Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, the Erebus and
Terror, was first published in 1859. The journey was commissioned
by Franklin's widow who, unhappy with the Admiralty's reluctance to
seek confirmation of the account of her husband's expedition
brought back in 1854 by explorer John Rae, commissioned McClintock
to seek corroborating evidence. After a punishing voyage, including
250 days beset by ice in Baffin Bay drifting some 1,400 miles, the
search continued by sledge. It was William Hobson, McClintock's
second-in-command who found the written evidence documenting
Franklin's death in 1847. The grim remains of others who had
perished were also discovered.
The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical
Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting
significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth
century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early
modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's
connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics,
'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography,
medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian
tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA,
American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography
in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide
detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual
traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.
"The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera" traces the
development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination
from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated
with "small fishing villages," through to the tragic and
devastating BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.
Harvey H. Jackson III focuses on the stretch of coast from Mobile
Bay and Gulf Shores, Alabama, east to Panama City, Florida--an area
known as the "Redneck Riviera." Jackson explores the rise of this
area as a vacation destination for the lower South's middle- and
working-class families following World War II, the building boom of
the 1950s and 1960s, and the emergence of the Spring Break
"season." From the late sixties through 1979, severe hurricanes
destroyed many small motels, cafes, bars, and early cottages that
gave the small beach towns their essential character. A second
building boom ensued in the 1980s dominated by high-rise
condominiums and large resort hotels. Jackson traces the tensions
surrounding the gentrification of the late 1980s and 1990s and the
collapse of the housing market in 2008. While his major focus is on
the social, cultural, and economic development, he also documents
the environmental and financial impacts of natural disasters and
the politics of beach access and dune and sea turtle protection.
"The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera" is the culmination of
sixteen years of research drawn from local newspapers, interviews,
documentaries, community histories, and several scholarly studies
that have addressed parts of this region's history. From his
1950s-built family vacation cottage in Seagrove Beach, Florida, and
on frequent trips to the Alabama coast, Jackson witnessed the
changes that have come to the area and has recorded them in a
personal, in-depth look at the history and culture of the coast.
A Friends Fund Publication.
Polar explorer John Ross (1777 1856) sailed with William Edward
Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The
attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its
failure. In 1829 he set out on a privately funded expedition on the
steamship Victory, accompanied by his nephew James Clark Ross, to
try again, returning to England in late 1833. Using survival
techniques learnt from the Inuit he befriended, Ross kept his crew
healthy through four icebound winters. While the voyage once again
failed to find a North-West Passage, it surveyed the Boothia
Peninsula and a large part of King William Land. It was also
valuable for its scientific findings, with J. C. Ross discovering
the magnetic north pole. Ross published this two-volume work in
1835. Volume 1 summarises previous Polar exploration before
describing the voyage in great detail, from preparations to the
return in 1833.
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