Discoverers and Explorers
Author: Edward R. Shaw
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-08-11
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 3752422696
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Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers
Author: Wayne Franklin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1989-10-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0226260720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in words—or via maps, tables, and landscape views—as a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
The Alchemy of Conquest
Author: Ralph Bauer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 0813942551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period. As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.
World Explorers And Discoverers
Author: Richard E. Bohlander
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Published: 1998-03-21
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From pre-Christianity to the 20th century, this reference work provides portraits of over 275 of the world's explorers, geographers, chroniclers and inventors. Each profile details the subject's life, personality, adventures, achievements, and the controversies, if any, surrounding the discovery.
Discoverers and Explorers (1900)
Author: Edward Richard Shaw
Publisher:
Published: 2008-06-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781436823074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Explorers and Discoverers of the World
Author: Daniel B. Baker
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents 322 men and women whose journeys shaped the modern world.
The Discoverers
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-01-26
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 0307773558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Lives of the Explorers
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 0544301498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn about the real lives of the daring and adventurous people who have sailed the seas, explored new worlds, and rocketed into space . . . You might know that Columbus discovered America, Lewis and Clark headed west with Sacajawea, and Sally Ride blasted into outer space. But what do you really know about these bold explorers? What were they like as kids? What pets or bad habits did they have? And what drove their passion to explore unknown parts of the world? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers as both world-changers and real people. The entertaining style and solid research of this series of biographies have made it a favorite with families and educators for twenty years. This new volume takes readers through the centuries and across the globe, profiling the men and women whose curiosity and courage have led them to discover our world. Includes color illustrations and maps “Readers will enjoy delving into the exploits of intrepid explorers across time, and, literally, space.” —Kirkus Reviews
Discoverers and Explorers
Exploration and Empire
Author: William H. Goetzmann
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Published: 2008-11
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9781597404266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called "the Great American Desert." According to Goetzmann, the exploration of the West was not a haphazard series of discoveries, but a planned - even programmed - activity in which explorers, often armed with instructions from the federal government, gathered information that would support national goals for the new lands. As national needs and the frontier's image changed, the West itself was rediscovered by successive generations of explorers, a process that in turn helped shape its culture. Nineteenth-century western exploration, Goetzmann writes, can be divided into three stages. The first, beginning with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, was marked by the need to collect practical information, such as the locations of the best transportation routes through the wilderness. Then came the era of settlement and investment - the drive to fulfill the Manifest Destiny of a nation beginning to realize what immense riches lay beyond the Mississippi. The final stage involved a search for knowledge of a different kind, as botanists and paleontologists, ethnographers and engineers hunted intensively for scientific information in the "frontier laboratory." This last phase also saw a rethinking of the West's place in the national scheme; it was a time of nascent conservation movements and public policy discussions aboutthe region's future. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Goetzmann offers a masterful overview of the opening of the West, as well as a fascinating study of the nature of exploration and its consequences for civilization.
