Tag: Voyages

Free Download Joan B. McLaughlin, Jack McLaughlin, "Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole"
English | 2006 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 1578068266 | PDF | 1,1 mb
When nature exudes in a swamp in Louisiana it is rich, tropical, juicy, dark, verminy, repellant and lovely all in one," wrote Catharine Cole in 1889. "It is like a coffin crowned with flowers; a death trap baited with roses."

Free Download Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975 by Richard F. Gordon Jr, Jerry Longe, Colin Burgess
English | November 21, 2014 | ISBN: B00PZIYU3K | 17 hours and 56 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 512 Mb
Following the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted account of the Apollo missions. The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the greatest achievements in human history. This book begins with the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the moon, then follows American spaceflight through the harrowing rescue of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with key figures in the space program, the authors convey the human drama and chart the technological marvels that went into the Apollo missions. They also put the accomplishments of American spaceflight into historical context, examining the competitive space race with the Soviet Union, the roles of politics and personality in launching the mission, and the consequences, practical and profound, of this giant leap for mankind.

Free Download David Beers Quinn, "The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590: Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584 Volume I"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1409414701 | EPUB | pages: 552 | 4.3 mb
Texts from Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White’s drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to 1590 and later in the following volume (Second Series 105), with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1955.

Free Download Clara Ho, "Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World: On China’s Global Historical Role"
English | ISBN: 3110585073 | 2018 | 261 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This is a multi-author volume resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. Apart from introductory chapters exploring methodological issues and providing big pictures of framing China in the world in particular time zones, this volume also covers rich discussions on the following themes from the ancient period to the twentieth century: organized water transport, cultural interactions, navigators, port cities, smuggling activities, customs service, foreign relations, migration, and diasporas. Written by scholars of different generations who are based in diverse regions including Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the chapters in this volume either address old questions from new perspectives, or table new topics that were largely ignored in previous scholarship. Some go further to brainstorm possible research directions in the future. This thought-provoking volume will be beneficial to readers who are interested in rethinking China’s position in the global historical stage against the backdrop of Post-Orientalism.

Free Download Richard Henry Major, Niccolò Zeno, Ívarr Bárðarson, "The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1015947093, 1015942121 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 1.6 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Free Download Sir William Foster, "The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies, 1591-1603"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1409414523 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 1.0 mb
New edition, with introduction and notes; for the previous edition, by Sir Clements Markham, see First Series 56 (1877). Contains three additional narratives and other documents and omits certain supplementary matter. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.

Free Download Alvise Cadamosto, G. R. Crone, "The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1409414477 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 1.1 mb
Translation and edition. The additional documents, in translation, comprise a letter by Antoine Malfante, 1447, an account of the voyages of Diogo Gomes, c. 1456, and extracts from João de Barros, Decadas de Asia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map of "North-western Africa in the fifteenth century" which appeared in the first edition of the work.

Free Download Richard Collinson, "The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1409413047, 1332858414 | EPUB | pages: 432 | 3.5 mb
In addition to the main text, this also has Edward Sellman’s account of the third voyage, and a list of artefacts from Frobisher encampments, etc, found by C. F. Hall and deposited with the Royal Geographical Society. The additional documents relate to numerous aspects of the financing and fitting out of the expedition. According to the British Museum date stamp, despite the stated publication date, actual publication did not occur until 1869. The supplementary material includes the 1867 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1867.

Free Download John Winter Jones, "Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America and the Islands adjacent: Collected and published by Richard Hakluyt, Prebendary of Bristol, in the Year 1582"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1409412733 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 2.4 mb
This volume contains the original printed text, with notes and an introduction. The edition is described as prepared ‘for the subscribers of 1849’ and as the third volume of 1849 in the report in the next volume. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1850.

Free Download Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento De Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan By Clements Robert, Sir Markham
2010 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1409413586 | PDF | 28 MB
The volume covers the voyages of 1579-1589, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The supplementary material includes the 1894 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1895.