Explorers Journal
Author: Ernest Ingersoll
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 478
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Author: Ernest Ingersoll
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 478
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 654
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: The Explorers Club
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2023-11-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1984859986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity. This guided tour of The Club’s most riveting journeys includes hundreds of photos and fascinating anecdotes about The Club’s distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant—even urgent—today.
Author: Tim Fridtjof Flannery
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802137197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" ... the writings of the men and women who traversed, circumnavigated, and settled the continent ..."--Cover.
Author: Manchester Geographical Society
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 1112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simon Ryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-09-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521577915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Goudie
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Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1900971488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesert exploration, like climbing Everest or polar expeditions, is not for the faint-hearted, and many of the vivid tales within this fascinating biographical history end in tragedy. However, the informative and absorbing descriptions of the extraordinary journeys, challenges and achievements of these intrepid figures, are captivating. They risked their lives variously for good old fashioned epic adventure, solitude, fame, the answer to mythical questions and some were even spies. They experienced fear, excitement and hardship in their journeys into the unknown. There are many books on exploration but remarkably few on desert exploration. Moreover, some of the great desert explorers of the last three hundred years are now very little remembered or appreciated in comparison, say, with those who ventured to the poles, climbed Everest, or sought the source of the Nile. Yet, crossing unknown deserts is no less challenging. This volume finally brings these Great Desert Explorers into the limelight, with short, illustrated biographies of around 60 of the most interesting, intrepid and important explorers of the world’s greatest deserts. There is also a brief introduction to each desert region. The many original quotations, illustrations and maps, contemporary figures, as well as plates of a range of desert landscapes make this a colourful, lively and informative read.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 1034
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glyndwr Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-21
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1000938425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their exploits became best-sellers. Anson's circumnavigation carried on the tradition of commerce-raiding, but it represented the beginnings of a more official interest in the Pacific and its resources. Later in the 18th century the hopes of speculative geographers that unknown continents and sea-passages existed in the Pacific prompted a series of expeditions by Cook and his contemporaries. New peoples were discovered as well as new lands, and the voyages led to changing perceptions of their lifestyles. Exploration was followed by trade and settlement in which Cook's associates such as Banks played a leading part. Before the end of the century there were British settlements in New South Wales, Nootka Sound had become a centre of international dispute, and across the Pacific traders, whalers and missionaries were following the tracks of the explorers.