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Loading... Journeys of the Great Explorers: Columbus to Cook (Modern Scholar)by Glyndwr Williams
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Ágætt yfirlit. Margt sem ég vissi ekki fyrir en líka annað sem sleppt var. Hins vegar fannst mér galli að einungis var fjallað um siglingar könnuða. Ekkert sagt frá rannsóknarleiðangrunum um Afríku, Asíu og Ameríku svo dæmi séu tekin. Þar er magnað efni. ( ) Amazing. We've all seen movies of bare-footed "swabbies" scurrying around on the decks of sailing ships. But to think that they walked through Arctic snow -- with no additional clothes and the same bare feet. Incredible. History is stranger than fiction, indeed. This Modern Scholar lecture series runs from Columbus to the time when the problems of scurvy and latitude, were licked, and there were virtually no more dotted lines on the maps. A very entertaining series. no reviews | add a review
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One of the most dramatic periods in world history is the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century. The extent of the changes can be seen by comparing the pre-Columbian maps, which showed no knowledge of either the Americas or the Pacific, with those of 1800, which in terms of projection, scale, and content approximate today's maps. In this course, the most important discovery voyages, the individual characteristics of their commanders, and the endurance of their crews will be described. Interspersed with accounts of individual voyages will be lectures that explain the more general and technical aspects of the voyages: improvements in ship design and navigation, constraints of wind and current, living conditions on board ship, and problems of health and discipline. Special attention will be paid to the controversies that developed from some of these voyages. By the end of the course, we will come to understand some of the reasons men went to sea, the perils they faced, and the successes achieved and failures experienced. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)910.9History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. explorationLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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