Voyage to the Other World
Author : Calvin B. Kendall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 9781452901503
Author : Calvin B. Kendall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 9781452901503
Author : Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
With The Otherworld in Irish Literature and History, Jonathan Wooding presents a major collection of essays by some of the best-known academics in Ireland, Britain and America today.
Author : Rafael Campo
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1994-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611922448
A collection of poems by a San Francisco doctor of Latino origin. The subjects include: an immigrant's son discovers his cultural identity, a physician awakens to the suffering of his patients, and two gay Latinos fall in love.
Author : George Forster
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780824820916
George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of Polynesian peoples as well as a sensitivity to the moral ambiguities of contact. The two volumes of George Forster's work include substantially richer descriptions of encounters with island inhabitants than either his father's classic work (Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, UH Press, 1996) or Cook's official narrative, and its confident, even visionary, style incorporates a good deal of polemic, particularly in its criticism of the treatment of islanders by Cook's crew. In addition to the range and depth of its anthropological considerations, it provides a thrilling account of life aboard one of Cook's vessels. In its author's German translation, this work becomes a classic of natural history writing, but its original English version has long been neglected by anglophone scholars. This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. But it also presents the work in fresh terms, making it more accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated. A Voyage Round the World brings the disciplines of history and anthropology to bear on Cook's voyages in an illuminating and readable fashion. This edition will help complete the corpus of basic documents on Cook's voyages--a crucial resource for researchers in cultural, Pacific, and maritime history; archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians; and most recently for scholars engaged in revisionist interpretations of eighteenth-century exploration and colonization.
Author : Douglas J. Mahr
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780931317347
Author : Robert MacCann
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780994510228
Three sixth-century Welsh poems have miraculously survived to provide new information on Arthur's life. Most astonishing of all, they record a disastrous sea voyage to a distant land where the Britons fought torrid battles against the inhabitants but were eventually decimated. From details in the poems Dr MacCann shows that this land was America.
Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1429937734
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
Author : W S Lach-Szyrma
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category :
ISBN : 9783337246730
Aleriel; or, a Voyage to Other Worlds - A Tale. Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 1712
Category : Latin America
ISBN :