Book Description
Traces one hundred years of Canadian endeavour in charting the three oceans and the thousands of miles of inland waterways that provide this country with the world's most extensive network of navigable waters.
Author : Stanley Fillmore
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Traces one hundred years of Canadian endeavour in charting the three oceans and the thousands of miles of inland waterways that provide this country with the world's most extensive network of navigable waters.
Author : Norman J. W. Thrower
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0520321022
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Author : John Beattie
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574090284
Even as a teenager, John Beattie felt drawn to the ocean, but it was 25 years before his dream of sailing the globe in his 35-foot yacht Warrior Queen could begin to come true. His voyage began in England & continued to the South American coast & into the depths of the rainforests via uncharted tributaries. The adventure reached a stirring climax during his return voyage from Venezuela. One day at dawn, hundreds of miles from land, he spotted a man dying of thirst aboard a drifting open boat, a man given one last slender chance to live. "A riveting, powerful, more-dramatic-than-fiction, true biographical story of life & death upon the open sea." The Midwest Book Review
Author : United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Climatology
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Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0745665926
In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie. The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions (especially universities and academies) which encouraged or discouraged intellectual innovation. Then, in a series of separate chapters, Burke explores the geography, anthropology, politics and economics of knowledge, focusing on the role of cities, academies, states and markets in the process of gathering, classifying, spreading and sometimes concealing information. The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader, listener, viewer or consumer, including the problem of the reliability of knowledge discussed so vigorously in the seventeenth century. One of the most original features of this book is its discussion of knowledges in the plural. It centres on printed knowledge, especially academic knowledge, but it treats the history of the knowledge 'explosion' which followed the invention of printing and the discovery of the world beyond Europe as a process of exchange or negotiation between different knowledges, such as male and female, theoretical and practical, high-status and low-status, and European and non-European. Although written primarily as a contribution to social or socio-cultural history, this book will also be of interest to historians of science, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and others in another age of information explosion.
Author : Alida C. Metcalf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421438534
How did intricately detailed sixteenth-century maps reveal the start of the Atlantic World? Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus's voyages, the Atlantic Ocean moved from the periphery to the center on European world maps. This brief but highly significant moment in early modern European history marks not only a paradigm shift in how the world was mapped but also the opening of what historians call the Atlantic World. But how did sixteenth-century chartmakers and mapmakers begin to conceptualize—and present to the public—an interconnected Atlantic World that was open and navigable, in comparison to the mysterious ocean that had blocked off the Western hemisphere before Columbus's exploration? In Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500, Alida C. Metcalf argues that the earliest surviving maps from this era, which depict trade, colonization, evangelism, and the movement of peoples, reveal powerful and persuasive arguments about the possibility of an interconnected Atlantic World. Blending scholarship from two fields, historical cartography and Atlantic history, Metcalf explains why Renaissance cosmographers first incorporated sailing charts into their maps and began to reject classical models for mapping the world. Combined with the new placement of the Atlantic, the visual imagery on Atlantic maps—which featured decorative compass roses, animals, landscapes, and native peoples—communicated the accessibility of distant places with valuable commodities. Even though individual maps became outdated quickly, Metcalf reveals, new mapmakers copied their imagery, which then repeated on map after map. Individual maps might fall out of date, be lost, discarded, or forgotten, but their geographic and visual design promoted a new way of seeing the world, with an interconnected Atlantic World at its center. Describing the negotiation that took place between a small cadre of explorers and a wider class of cartographers, chartmakers, cosmographers, and artists, Metcalf shows how exploration informed mapmaking and vice versa. Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004446036
Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Hydrology
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Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 1978-08
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FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Author : Higman, B.W.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1905-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231033603
This volume looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region, depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The chapters discussing methodology are followed by studies of particular themes of historiography. The second half of the volume describes the writing of history in the individual territories, taking into account changes in society, economy and political structure. The final section is a full and detailed bibliography serving not only as a guide to the volume but also as an invaluable reference for the General History of the Caribbcan as a whole.