This book offers the history of Christopher Columbus, from his uncertain origins and his formative years as a sailor to the voyages that forever changed world history.
When naval officer George Spearing went gathering nuts in a wood near Glasgow in 1769, he fell into a deep hole, where he survived a whole week before friends came to rescue him.
Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (17401807).
For one hundred years Scottish medical explorers were at the forefront of exploration within the British Empire, as exemplified by these five individuals.
For two thousand years a web of roads and sea-lanes ran from the heart of China to the shores of the Mediterranean, and along it moved almost everything that would make the modern world: silk and horses, glass and paper, gunpowder and porcelain, Buddhism and Islam, and — in the end — the plague that killed half of Europe.
North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nations history.
North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nations history.
An autobiography spanning eighty years and still going strong, fishing being one of the few constants throughout from childhood to present day--along the way, there was time spent with professional baseball and a hitch in the United States Air Force.
Our fishing trip that we took in 1986 turned into an adventure that took us all across the North American continent, from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
Au XIXe siècle, alors que la pébrine menace de ruiner l’industrie française de la soie, l’empereur Napoléon III dépêche Louis Pasteur pour sauver les filatures.
Francisco Fernández del Riego propón nesta obra unha ampla e vizosa viaxe organizada en doce itinerarios ou peregrinacións co fío argumental que lle brindan uns amigos bretóns que veñen visitar o noso país e reciben a hospitalidade e a clarividencia do seu anfitrión.
Cuando Gabriel García Márquez recibió en 1982 el Premio Nobel de Literatura abrió su discurso con un homenaje dedicado a Antonio Pigafetta y a su «libro breve y fascinante, en el cual ya se vislumbran los gérmenes de nuestras novelas de hoy».
Besides providing a wealth of contemporary factual information, diligently researched and presented in a remarkably lucid manner, this book is full of human interest: the braving of incredible dangers, the enduring of great hardships, and devastating storms; contacts with cannibals, beachcombers, and avaricious traders; polygamy, debauchery, and tribal wars, all portrayed with "e;you-were-there"e; vividness.
Besides providing a wealth of contemporary factual information, diligently researched and presented in a remarkably lucid manner, this book is full of human interest: the braving of incredible dangers, the enduring of great hardships, and devastating storms; contacts with cannibals, beachcombers, and avaricious traders; polygamy, debauchery, and tribal wars, all portrayed with "e;you-were-there"e; vividness.
'An Antarctic odyssey; Shackleton and Scott star in this rip-roaring account'The Telegraph'Delivered with pace, style and infectious enthusiasm, The Grip of the Ice sometimes chills you to the bone.
With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
From the intense and brooding Magellan and the glamorous and dashing Sir Francis Drake; to Thomas Cavendish, who set off to plunder Spain's American gold and the Dutch circumnavigators, whose numbers included pirates as well as explorers and merchants, Robert Silverberg captures the adventures and seafaring exploits of a bygone era.
With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology.
This eye-opening perspective on Stanley's expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa.
From the intense and brooding Magellan and the glamorous and dashing Sir Francis Drake; to Thomas Cavendish, who set off to plunder Spain's American gold and the Dutch circumnavigators, whose numbers included pirates as well as explorers and merchants, Robert Silverberg captures the adventures and seafaring exploits of a bygone era.
An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.
The dramatic story of Lady Hester Stanhope - a wilful beauty turned bohemian adventurer - who left England as a young woman, unashamedly enjoyed a string of lovers and established her own exotic fiefdom in the Lebanese mountains where she died in 1839.
This eye-opening perspective on Stanley's expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa.
