Explorers and Travellers
Author: Adolphus Washington Greely
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 396
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Author: Adolphus Washington Greely
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Laing
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1845414608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from the 'Golden Age' of imperial explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, through the growth of adventure and extreme tourism, to possible future trends including space travel. The volume should appeal to researchers and students across a variety of disciplines, including tourism studies, sociology, geography and history.
Author: A. W. Greely
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780332127729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Explorers and Travellers The compiler of a series of sketches of Ameri can Explorers and Travellers experiences at the very outset a serious embarrassment from the superabundant wealth of original material at his command. The history of America for two hundred years after the voyage of Joliet has been the history of courageous, persistent, and successful exploration, wherein the track of the explorer, instantly serving as a trail for the pio neer, has speedily broadened into the wagon road of invading immigrants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: A. W. Greely
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 215
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplorations and journeys of such an extent as in other and older lands would have excited praise and merited reward have been so frequent in this continent as to pass almost unnoticed. Hence the scope of this modest volume is necessarily confined to explorations of great importance or peculiar interest, and when made by men of American birth who are no longer living.
Author: Adolphus Washington Greely
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780518100423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adolphus Washington Greely
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780795046377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adolphus Washington Greely
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1465522093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compiler of a series of sketches of American Explorers and Travellers experiences at the very outset a serious embarrassment from the superabundant wealth of original material at his command. The history of America for two hundred years after the voyage of Joliet has been the history of courageous, persistent, and successful exploration, wherein the track of the explorer, instantly serving as a trail for the pioneer, has speedily broadened into the wagon-road of invading immigrants. Explorations and journeys of such an extent as in other and older lands would have excited praise and merited reward have been so frequent in this continent as to pass almost unnoticed. Hence the scope of this modest volume is necessarily confined to explorations of great importance or peculiar interest, and when made by men of American birth who are no longer living. In deference to the author’s advisers, two exceptions have been made—Du Chaillu and Stanley, Americans by adoption—otherwise African exploration, so wondrously successful in this generation and so fruitful in its results, would have been unrepresented. Again, the unparalleled growth and progress of our American republic owes no small debt to the wealth of physical vigor and strong intellectuality contributed by its sturdy emigrants. These men, American in idea, purpose, and action, whose manhood outgrew the slow evolution of freedom in their natal country, merit recognition. What thousands of other naturalized citizens have industrially wrought of the wonderful and great in this country, these selected representatives have equalled in African exploration. A chronological arrangement appeared best suited to these sketches, which from Joliet to Frémont exhibit the initiation, growth, and development of geographic discovery in the interior and western portions of the United States. Since the sketches rest very largely on original narratives some current errors at least have been avoided. Generalization and criticism have been made always with reference to later exploration, which necessarily enhances or diminishes the importance of any original work.
Author: Adolphus W Greely
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-24
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf one should ask which is the most important river basin in the world, there is no doubt that the Mississippi would be named, with its million and a quarter square miles of area and its twenty-five or more billions of aggregated wealth. Favored in climate, soil, and navigable streams, and endowed with practically inexhaustible veins of coal, copper, iron, and silver, feeding the world with its hundreds of millions of bushels of corn and wheat, and clothing it by other millions of bales of cotton, it is hardly so astonishing that within years from its discovery by Joliet this greatest of river basins should be the abiding-place of twenty-seven and a half millions of people.
Author: Jennifer Laing
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2014-08-04
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1845414586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from the 'Golden Age' of imperial explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, through the growth of adventure and extreme tourism, to possible future trends including space travel. The volume should appeal to researchers and students across a variety of disciplines, including tourism studies, sociology, geography and history.
Author: A. W. (Adolphus Washington) 184 Greely
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781362575146
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