Geografiske opdagelser og udforskning
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The Age of Discovery, 1400-1600 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)This book explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and set up links with Africa, Asia and the Americas.
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The Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)The journal of the Lander brothers provides a narrative of one of the most important missions of exploration in the history of West Africa.
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The True History of his Captivity 1557: Hans Staden (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)The first part of the book is a straightforward account of the author's personal experiences. The second part is a detailed treatise on the customs of the Tupinambá, their polity, trade, religion, manufactures and warlike undertakings.
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The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the aim of capturing the city... Læs mere
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Antarctic Mineral Exploitation: The Emerging Legal Framework (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In this book Professor Orrego Vicuna examines in depth the legal framework – the Antarctic Treaty, sovereignty, jurisdiction, and the law of the sea – as it relates to the exploitation of Antarctic minerals.
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The Beagle Record: Selections from the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of HMS Beagle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This 1979 volume gathers together an account of the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world in 1831–6, taken from the letters of Darwin and Fitzroy, Darwin's diary, and the books about the voyage published 1839. It is illustrated by the Beagle's official artist, Conrad Martens.
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Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Fascinating study of the the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century explorations of the... Læs mere
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Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818–1918 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This is a study of science in the exploration of the Canadian Arctic. It covers the century that began with the British Royal Naval expeditions of 1818 and ended with the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–18.
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The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)This book is an investigation of the presumptions and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the unadorned observations they would have us believe. It scrutinises the scientific and literary methodology of exploration.
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The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)A startling new interpretation of the myth and the reality of the life of one of the great figures of the 'Age of Discoverers'.
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Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected: this account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles.
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Persia and the Persian Question: Volume One (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)This is the recording of a six month long journey to Persia as well as previous travels in neighbouring areas. The book also describes the communications maintained with the Persian authorities.
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