Exploration and Discovery
Author: Simon Adams
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780754804437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible reference book, which captures all the excitement and spirit of adventure.
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Author: Simon Adams
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780754804437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible reference book, which captures all the excitement and spirit of adventure.
Author: Lincoln P. Paine
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2000-11-15
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0547561636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLincoln P. Paine's SHIPS OF THE WORLD: AN HISTORICAL HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA was honored as one of the best reference books of the year by the New York Public Library, and Library Journal described it as "clearly the most fascinating book of the year." Now, in two equally fascinating new books, Paine focuses on two of the most interesting areas of maritime history: WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD TO 1900 and SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION. SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION tells the stories of 125 vessels that have played important roles in voyages of geographical exploration and scientific discovery, from early Polynesian double canoes to the most technically sophisticated submersibles. Each ship is described in a vivid short essay that captures its personality as well as its physical characteristics, construction, and history. Drawings, paintings, and photographs show the grandeur and grace of these oceangoing vessels, maps help the reader follow the routes of great seafarers and naval campaigns, and chronologies offer a perspective on underwater archaeology sites, maritime technology, exploration, and disasters at sea.
Author: Helen M. Rozwadowski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008-03-31
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0674042948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed—of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction—is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities—in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests—from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography—origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.
Author: John Horace Parry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780520042353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands.
Author: John Norman Leonard Baker
Publisher: New York : Cooper Square Publishers
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald S. Love
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2006-09-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313320438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays that examine developments in maritime exploration from 1415 to 1800, discussing the impact those developments had on what people knew about the world and how it was explored.
Author: Captivating History
Publisher: Captivating History
Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781647486938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of Exploration. This was a time when the people of Europe began to travel, discover, and explore more of the world than ever before, mapping and naming the places they found.
Author: Tony Rice
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781902686066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a visual record of some of the most significant and beautiful discoveries in the history of natural science explorations. The photographs and artwork span three centuries and document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories behind these images - of explorers, naturalists, artists and photographers - entwine in a study of human achievement and natural wonder.
Author: Eric Flaum
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781863250320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Bertha Synge
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13:
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