Book Description
This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.
Author : R. Barbour
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230100880
This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.
Author : Richmond Barbour
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
These previously unpublished journals of England’s first voyage to India illuminate a fascinating cultural achievement: the first performances of Shakespeare outside Europe. The journals of the London East India Company voice the ambitions, divisions, and traumas of a pivotal moment in the emergence of global capitalism, as London’s merchants strived for distant markets and cultivated relationships with non-Europeans. Barbour’s commentary situates the voyage historically, describes the key personnel and writing community, examines the culture of performance at sea, and consolidates the evidence for the shipboard productions of Hamlet and Richard II.
Author : John Rickman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781016109994
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James K. Barnett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874223576
Maritime historian James K. Barnett discovered extraordinary journals and paintings of Captain James Cook's demanding final voyage languishing in Australian archives. Expedition artist John Webber and two young officers"Discovery" first lieutenant James Burney, and "Resolution" Master's Mate Henry Roberts--offer remarkable eyewitness accounts of initial European contact, the first reasonably accurate maps of North America's west coast, the earliest comprehensive report from the Bering Sea ice pack, and portrayals of the celebrated mariner's dramatic death at Kealakekua Bay. Particularly astonishing for depictions of landings along Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and Alaska, Barnett adds context and commentary to complete the story.
Author : Sir William Edward Parry
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage is an autobiography by William Edward Parry. It depicts the exploration of the North-West Passage, a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean.
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1847
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : William Edward Parry
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Travel
ISBN :
"Journal of an African Cruiser" is a travel narrative written by Horatio Bridge. Published in 1845, the book recounts Bridge's experiences during his time serving as a naval officer aboard the USS Decatur on the coast of West Africa. The narrative provides insights into the challenges and observations of the African coast during the mid-19th century. Horatio Bridge's journal details his encounters with various African cultures, the landscapes, and the complexities of the slave trade, which was a significant focus of naval efforts in the region at that time. The work offers readers a firsthand account of the author's experiences and perspectives on the African coast and its maritime activities. For those interested in maritime history, naval exploration, and 19th-century perspectives on Africa, "Journal of an African Cruiser" provides a historical document that sheds light on the naval operations and cultural landscapes of the period.
Author : J.C. Beaglehole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351543229
Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of this edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook’s second voyage. Dr Beaglehole prints the full text of Cook’s own holograph journals, followed by those of Captains Clerke and King for the course of the voyage after Cook’s death. This is a facsimile reprint of the edition published in 1967. For the print-on-demand edition, the illustrations originally in colour are reproduced in black-and-white, the fold-outs divided to fit on separate pages, and the volume itself split into two parts.
Author : Bartolomé de las Casas
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This edition and translation of Las Casas's narrative, transmitted in his Historia de las Indias, of Columbus's third voyage in 1498-1500 to Trinidad and the Gulf of Paria, then on to Hispaniola, completes the coverage of the Columbian voyages contained in volumes 6 and 7 of the Repertorium Columbianum. The narrative opens on a high note with the first European sighting of the mainland of South America, Columbus's lyrical response to the beauty of its abundant flora and fauna, friendly encounters with the Indians of Paria, and intimations that the expedition might have stumbled onto the threshold of the earthly paradise. It closes, however, in a somber vein with what Las Casas aptly termed the fall of the admiral, who had been ousted from his governorship for mismanagement of the young colony and shipped home ignominiously to face an uncertain reception at the court of Fernando and Isabel. Las Casas's commentary is largely centered on moral and political issues, particularly on the contradictory implications of Columbus's actions: on the one hand as the explorer who opened up a new world for Christian evangelization, and on the other as the viceroy whose brutal and ineffective administration of this new world proved so disastrous for its indigenous inhabitants. The former he judges positively and the latter negatively, never mincing his words. Indeed, this fascinating text can be read as a dialogue between Las Casas and Columbus in which Las Casas constantly quotes the admiral's letters and then glosses them with his own observations, guided by moral and eschatological themes.
Author : William Edward Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 110803098X
In these fascinating memoirs of 1826, an explorer recounts his uncompleted third voyage to discover the 'Northwest Passage' trading route.