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American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of
popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological
insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents
how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism,
athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism
compete and thrive.
Kerr's Voyages is a comprehensive account of sea and land voyages
covering 1,000 years of exploration from the 9th to the 18th
centuries. Kerr's Voyages 4 covers the Southern Hemisphere. It
provides a rich collection of voyages by Captain James Cook,
together with journeys of discovery in the Southern Oceans by other
key figures such as Commodore Byron and Captains Wallis, Carteret,
Clerke and Gore. The accounts of Cook's voyages are particularly
detailed, accurate and informative, and contain descriptions of the
many islands and countries discovered and detail of the
inhabitants, their customs, beliefs and languages. Voyages around
the Cape of Good Hope, encounters with the natives of Tierra del
Fuego, the search for a Southern Continent, the discovery of New
Caledonia, human sacrifice in the Sandwich Islands, as well as
tales of the many incidents and skirmishes that befell the ships
and their crews, make this set an engaging and informative
collection. The six-volume set contains, in addition, an extensive
new Introduction by Glyn Williams, one of the leading experts on
Captain Cook and his contemporaries.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert
Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the
origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea
and land. In determining upon an era for the commencement of this
work, Kerr was led, from a consideration of the accidental
discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians in the ninth century, to
adopt that period as the beginning of the series, both because the
commencement of modern maritime discovery took place during the
reign of a British sovereign, and because we derive the earliest
written accounts of any of these discoveries from the pen of that
excellent prince. It is true that the first accidental discovery of
Iceland appears to have been made in 861, eleven years before the
accession of Alfred to the throne; yet, as the actual colonization
of that island did not take place till the year 878, the seventh of
his glorious reign, we have been induced to distinguish the actual
commencement of maritime discovery by the modern European nations
as coinciding with his era.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert
Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the
origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea
and land. In determining upon an era for the commencement of this
work, Kerr was led, from a consideration of the accidental
discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians in the ninth century, to
adopt that period as the beginning of the series, both because the
commencement of modern maritime discovery took place during the
reign of a British sovereign, and because we derive the earliest
written accounts of any of these discoveries from the pen of that
excellent prince. It is true that the first accidental discovery of
Iceland appears to have been made in 861, eleven years before the
accession of Alfred to the throne; yet, as the actual colonization
of that island did not take place till the year 878, the seventh of
his glorious reign, we have been induced to distinguish the actual
commencement of maritime discovery by the modern European nations
as coinciding with his era.
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