Trade in Eastern Seas 1793-1813
Trade in Eastern Seas 1793-1813

Author: C. Northcote Parkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1136235574

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First Published in 1966.This volume adds to maritime history with information on trade in the Eastern Seas from 1793 to 1813. It is a description of conditions not a narrative of events.

The Trade Winds
The Trade Winds

Author: C.Northcote Parkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1136607501

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First Published in 2005. The authors of this book have tried to portray, in outline, the background of trade against which the Navy of Nelson's time had to operate. The Tarde Winds is the title they have chosen and the book should serve to remind us of many physical facts which then dominated the strategy both of trade and war—the Trade Winds themselves being not the least of them.

Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island
Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island

Author: Barbara Freitag

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 9401209103

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Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.