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Discovering Florida: First-Contact Narratives from Spanish Expeditions Along the Lower Gulf Coast
ISBN: 9780813061900 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Gives voice to a period in U.S. history that remains virtually unknown, even to specialists in the field."--J. Michael Francis, coauthor of Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida "With these transcriptions and translations, Worth provides an important service to ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and others who share an interest in the Spanish colonial explorations of the greater Southeast."--Mariah F. Wade, author of Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans "A model for how to handle important primary sources. The historical introduction is a treasure in its own...
"Gives voice to a period in U.S. history that remains virtually unknown, even to specialists in the field."--J. Michael Francis, coauthor of Murder...
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153,09 zł |
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Pioneers of France In the New World
ISBN: 9781511586818 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable p...
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59,29 zł |
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Australia Twice Traversed
ISBN: 9781511707152 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Australia Twice Traversed" from Ernest Giles. Best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer (1835-1897).
"Australia Twice Traversed" from Ernest Giles. Best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer (1835-1897).
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113,65 zł |
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The Voyage of the Beagle
ISBN: 9781511601641 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were exploring and charting the whole world. Although Darwin revisited some areas during the expedition, for clarity the chapters of the book are ordered by reference to places and locations rather than by date. Darwin's notes made during the voyage include comments illustrating his changing views at a time when he...
The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering ...
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82,16 zł |
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Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter: Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781845197001 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With his letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event, but the letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention. British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King Ferdinand...
With his letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduc...
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625,49 zł |
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Hajer na andyjskim szlaku
ISBN: 9788361968276 / Polski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barwny opis kilkumiesięcznej śmiałej podróży przed siebie przez andyjskie kraje, bogato ilustrowany sugestywnymi zdjęciami autora. Cennym dodatkiem są wspomnienia Bieńka z czasów dzieciństwa i pracy w kopalni. To już czwarta książka tego autora, nawiązująca w swej formule do pierwszej książki "Hajer jedzie do Dalajalmy".
W książce tej wraz z autorem staraliśmy się zawrzeć opowieści o ważniejszych punktach na trasie, jakże ze sobą kontrastujących – jest zatem tętniące życiem wybrzeże karaibskie w Kolumbii, majestatyczne wulkany Ekwadoru, bogata w złoto... Barwny opis kilkumiesięcznej śmiałej podróży przed siebie przez andyjskie kraje, bogato ilustrowany sugestywnymi zdjęciami autora. Cennym dodatk...
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65,70 zł |
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A History of Astronomy (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415747363 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A History of Astronomy, first published in 1907, offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its inception in the ancient world up to the momentous progress of the nineteenth century. It includes biographical material relating to the most famous names in the study of astronomy - Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Herschel - and their contributions, clear and accessible discussions of key discoveries, as well as detailing the incremental steps in technology with which many of the turning points in astronomy were intimately bound up. A History of Astronomy, first published in 1907, offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its in... |
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227,29 zł |
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
ISBN: 9780882406213 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's...
Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with ex...
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126,02 zł |
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The Portuguese and the Creole Indian Ocean: Essays in Historical Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9781137563668 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Portuguese first entered the Indian Ocean centuries ago, they intruded upon an ancient creole and cosmopolitan world. Also, they entered a world with age-old connections to the Mediterranean. This book explores some of the intriguing interstices of colonial and other spaces in the ocean, through a scrutiny of personages, texts, and authors between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, in a variety of locales, namely, Goa (India), Macau (China), Malabar (Kerala, India), and Melaka (Malaysia). As the narrative goes back and forth between the ethnographic present and the past, it...
When the Portuguese first entered the Indian Ocean centuries ago, they intruded upon an ancient creole and cosmopolitan world. Also, they entered a wo...
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383,73 zł |
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A Voyage to New Holland
ISBN: 9780994317247 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Dampier was a buccaneer, an explorer and a naturalist. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times and the first Englishman to map parts of Australia and New Guinea. He was a celebrated and best-selling travel writer and achieved wide fame for his vivid descriptions of the various lands and people he encountered. In 1699 Dampier was offered the command of an expedition aimed at proving that New Holland was a continent on its own and not connected to Asia or the Americas. Sailing from England in the Roebuck, Dampier touched at Bahia in Brazil before rounding the...
William Dampier was a buccaneer, an explorer and a naturalist. He was the first person to circumnavigate the world three times and the first Englishma...
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41,03 zł |
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Written in the Ruins: Cape Breton Island's Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement
ISBN: 9781459733121 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.
From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, at least a century before any attempt at European settlement in the region, the explorer John Cabot had referred to Cape Breton as the Island of Seven Cities. The indigenous people of the region, the Mi kmaq, were the only aboriginal people of... Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.
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104,29 zł |
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The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775: Volume IV
ISBN: 9781409432548 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three previous volumes in the set (Second series 152-154) is continuous. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster, J. R. Forster - principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage - was nevertheless recognised by many contemporaries as one of the 'universal geniuses' of the late 18th century. His journal of the voyage offers many new insights, expressed at...
This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three...
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734,27 zł |
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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and Its Empires, 1730-1850
ISBN: 9781137520630 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850 brings together the work of international authors to explore European experiences in the development of new navigational techniques and instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is the period in which the 'longitude problem' has been presented as being solved in an unproblematic way. Challenging this narrative, the book looks beyond just the British story to examine the role of governments, institutions, men of science, practitioners and navigators across Europe, and the use of the new and old techniques and...
Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730-1850 brings together the work of international authors to explore European experiences in the...
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422,11 zł |
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The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon
ISBN: 9780803244986 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West. Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expeditio... |
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320,36 zł |
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Skandynawia Światło północy
ISBN: 9788379429165 / Polski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ze Skandynawią, czy szerzej – Północą, potencjalni turyści mają pewien kłopot. Z jednej strony kusi ich piękno krajobrazów i bogactwo tamtejszej kultury, z drugiej – odstraszają warunki pogodowe, kłopotliwy dojazd, wysokie ceny. O ile to ostatnie przekonanie można po części uznać za uzasadnione, pozostałe dwa lepiej umieścić na półce ze stereotypami.
„Skandynawia. Światło Północy” jest kolejnym dowodem, że nie warto im ulegać. Dziesięć podróży, w które zabierają nas autorzy, to pokaźna garść inspiracji. Okazuje się, że schowany tuż za horyzontem... Ze Skandynawią, czy szerzej – Północą, potencjalni turyści mają pewien kłopot. Z jednej strony kusi ich piękno krajobrazów i bogactwo tamte...
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62,69 zł |
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The Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter: Imagining the Americas in the Late Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781845197018 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With his letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event, but the letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention. British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King Ferdinand...
With his letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduc...
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271,95 zł |
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The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
ISBN: 9780816699414 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they "discovered"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian... What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instea... |
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403,03 zł |
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The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
ISBN: 9780816699421 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instead of conceiving of global exploration as an enterprise just of European men such as Columbus or Cook or Magellan, we thought of it as an enterprise of the people they "discovered"? What could such a new perspective reveal about geographical understanding and its place in struggles over power in the context of colonialism? The World and All the Things upon It addresses these questions by tracing how Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian... What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the passive objects of that exploration? What if, instea... |
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108,45 zł |
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The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions: Reprinted from 'Purchas His Pilgrimes'
ISBN: 9781409413738 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adventures between 1589 and 1607, edited, with notes and a concise history of Kongo and Angola. With part of Anthony Knivet's account of his activities in the same countries, from the same source. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1901.
Adventures between 1589 and 1607, edited, with notes and a concise history of Kongo and Angola. With part of Anthony Knivet's account of his activitie...
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734,27 zł |
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Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery
ISBN: 9781514619216 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,08 zł |
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