The World Encompassed
The World Encompassed

Author: G. V. Scammell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 1351014692

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In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to western Europeans was enlarged in a way unparalleled before or since. The book takes a broad historical perspective, linking the classic age of European expansion to its medieval antecedents. The Norse reached North America in the tenth century, Italian missionaries and traders were established in China in the high Middle Ages, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in some of the greatest voyages ever made under sail, Iberian explorers crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and established footholds in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This is a stimulating and perceptive study, based on wide-ranging research, which makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the influence of empire on both colonial and metropolitan societies.

The World Encompassed
The World Encompassed

Author: Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780520044227

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A study of European exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires

The World Encompassed
The World Encompassed

Author: Bradley Angle

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This annotated version of Sir Francis Drake's "The World Encompassed" is the first clear, text based, print of the book. While other publishers have produced hard to read, scanned copies of the text, our version is a clean size 11 font. Our annotations seek to make: !) difficult passages and language easy to read, 2) places, anchorages, and lat/long modernized, 3) mark historically debated passages, 4) and other notes of interest and significance including global history, ecological significance, cultural subjects, and popular trivia.

The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake: Being his Next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake: Being his Next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios

Author: Francis Drake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108008112

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of Drake's circumnavigation of the world in 1577-1580 was first published by his nephew in 1628 and appears to derive from notes made by Francis Fletcher, the chaplain to the expedition, although a surviving manuscript account by Fletcher is not identical. The introduction to this edition (published in 1854) discusses textual problems, and also puts the narrative into the context of Drake's career as one of the privateers who carried on England's unacknowledged war with Spain in the decades before the Armada.

The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake

Author: William Sandys Wright Vaux

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1317011554

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The work is edited with 'Appendices illustrative of the Same Voyage', and introduction, from the 1628 edition 'collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher', collated with British Library, Sloane MS 61. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854.