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Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents
ISBN: 9781474276832 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left very different accounts, as recorded in those trial records. Their competing voices have long been silenced by the deafening crescendo of Columbus's own narrative-a narrative riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies that beg to be explained. This documentary history allows the reader to encounter the founding documents of the Columbus... What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions w... |
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Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents
ISBN: 9781474276825 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left very different accounts, as recorded in those trial records. Their competing voices have long been silenced by the deafening crescendo of Columbus's own narrative-a narrative riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies that beg to be explained. This documentary history allows the reader to encounter the founding documents of the Columbus... What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions w... |
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A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty
ISBN: 9781519633859 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty" from William Bligh. Officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator (1754 - 1817).
"A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty" from William Bligh. Officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator (175...
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59,46 |
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Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia
ISBN: 9781138661660 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin's scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition's stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, politics and science in the era of Bonaparte.
This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin's scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the...
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Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769-1840
ISBN: 9781138661752 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images in relation to violence had particular consequences for land ownership. Standfield examines these differences and how they occurred.
British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial imag...
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The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 1576-1806
ISBN: 9781138661820 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage - the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - from the early modern era to the start of the nineteenth century.
These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage - the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - fro...
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242,84 |
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Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Northwest Passage
ISBN: 9781138661837 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British ...
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Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781138662131 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of 'humanity' through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.
The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of 'hu...
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British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other
ISBN: 9781138663237 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.
Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigat...
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Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea: and there hence about the whole Globe of the earth, begun in the year of our Lord, 1577
ISBN: 9781522846529 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,87 |
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America Painted to the Life: The History of the Spaniards Proceedings in America, their Conquests of the Indians, and of their Civil Wars among the
ISBN: 9781522863502 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Discovery of America: Excerpted from The Origin if the North American Indians (1843)
ISBN: 9781522863892 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Two-Year Sea Voyage from Boston to California on a Merchant Ship
ISBN: 9781522982937 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Forbidden Universe: The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God
ISBN: 9781472124784 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fascinating exploration of the Hermetic origins of modern science and the secret agenda behind the search for the truth from the bestselling team of Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.
The fascinating exploration of the Hermetic origins of modern science and the secret agenda behind the search for the truth from the bestselling team ...
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65,37 |
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Chernobyl the Zone: 2016
ISBN: 9780993395116 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Transported!
ISBN: 9781519366078 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1787 a state-sponsored convoy of 11 ships embarked on an interminable voyage to where no Europeans had ever settled before - the east-coast of Australia. The flotilla carried a human cargo of 750 convicts banished from Georgian England's overflowing prisons. In Transported Brian Adams vividly re-creates the daily dramas of this hazardous mission, based on first-hand accounts in surviving journals, diaries and letters. These First Fleet colonists were destined to leave their pioneering footprint on what would become a great modern nation - Australia.
In 1787 a state-sponsored convoy of 11 ships embarked on an interminable voyage to where no Europeans had ever settled before - the east-coast of Aust...
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Siberia: Conquest and Exploration(1500-1800)
ISBN: 9781530637607 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take a look at the map. Which is the largest country on earth? How did Russia become so vast? How did she capture Siberia? When did this happen? Why did such an important historical event go unnoticed? What conquests and discoveries led to this expansion? This books addresses these questions which rise in the mind on seeing a map of the world. The stages by which Russia shook of the Mongol yoke and proceeded to expand her domains are traced. How in the first stage she unified and then conquered the Muslim khanates of Kazan and Sibir, and then proceeded to expand across Asia are examined. The...
Take a look at the map. Which is the largest country on earth? How did Russia become so vast? How did she capture Siberia? When did this happen? Why d...
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Australia, Early Sea Voyages and Invasions
ISBN: 9781530634521 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "At least 10,000 years ago the Koori knew enough about aerodynamic flight and torque to be able to design and build such sophisticated instruments as returning boomerangs." Dr. R.K. Fisher and Martini Fisher re-discover humanity from the very beginning. Following "Time Maps: History, Prehistory and Biological Evolution," "Time Maps: Australia, Early Sea Travels and Invasions" discusses evidences of early people and sea travels - discovering that, despite the modern invention of the internet, we are not more "connected" than our ancestors. Chapters included are: Australia and Early Sea Voyages...
"At least 10,000 years ago the Koori knew enough about aerodynamic flight and torque to be able to design and build such sophisticated instruments as ...
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Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
ISBN: 9780773547841 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving one of the Arctic s greatest mysteries. In compelling and accessible prose, Russell Potter details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of modern searches for the expedition and elucidates how shared research and ideas have...
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the ...
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Joseph: Of Rainbow Valley
ISBN: 9781523888412 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. in the snow on the northwestern slopes of the mountains were clear and pronounced... easy to read. The tracks which had been left behind were so obvious that a child of ten could have easily understood the message which was so clearly portrayed in the shallow covering of snow. The tracks depicted a familiar yet nonetheless horrifying chain of events - vividly attesting to the fact that an abduction of women and young children had taken place. There was no other way to interpret the distinct message in the snow. On the southern and eastern sides of the mountains the midday fall sunshine and...
in the snow on the northwestern slopes of the mountains were clear and pronounced... easy to read. The tracks which had been left behind were so obvio...
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