Verrazano's Voyage Along the Atlantic Coast of North America, 1524
Author : Giovanni da Verrazzano
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1916
Category : America
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Author : Giovanni da Verrazzano
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1916
Category : America
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Author : Giovanni Da Verrazzano
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1616403810
The Voyage of John De Verazzano, written 1524, was a letter to King Francis the I of France by Giovanni (or John) da Verrazzano upon his exploration of North Carolina and the Pamlico Sound, which he thought was the entrance to the Pacific Ocean. His analysis resulted in one of many errors in the way North America was represented on a map; it was not fully and correctly mapped until the late 1800s. The letter, translated from its original Italian, provides an interesting insight into how the newly-discovered continent was viewed by explorers and other countries. Also included is an account, in Italian, of Verazzano's discovery of New York Harbor.GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO (1485-1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, the first European since the colonization of the Americas by the Norse colonies to explore the Atlantic coast. Born near Florence, he soon moved to France and started a career as a navigator, after which he was invited to explore North America by the French King Francis I. Throughout his years, he explored New York Harbor, Narragansett Bay, the coast of Maine, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, Florida, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles. Verrazzano made a total of three trips, dying in 1528 after embarking on an island and being killed and eaten by the local Carib cannibals.
Author : G. da Verrazzano
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 1916
Category : History
ISBN : 5871465293
Author : Cynthia O'Brien
Publisher : Travel with the Great Explorer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778739289
In the early 1500s, Italian-born explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano led France's exploration in the New World. In a fierce rivalry with Spain to claim new territories, King Francis I sent Verrazzano to find a westward route across the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Verrazzano mistakenly believed he had discovered the route. In fact, he had sailed along much of the eastern coast of North America, and his travels greatly increased Europe's knowledge of the New World. However, the French failed to follow up on his discoveries-and Verrazzano's achievements were largely forgotten for centuries. Book jacket.
Author : Henry Cruse Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1875
Category : America
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Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486271234
realistic illustrations depict Vikings in Vinland, Columbus's ship Niña, Ponce de León in Florida, others. Captions.
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1588365913
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.
Author : Henry C. Murphy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2024-01-30
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ISBN : 3385249414
Author : Henry Cruse Murphy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 2023-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387041098
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Richard Hakluyt
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1850
Category : America
ISBN :