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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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After serving in the Royal Navy in Canada, Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) participated in... Læs mere
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Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This account was first published in 1829.
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Collecting together sources such as letters, official documents and personal accounts, this volume charts the Portuguese discovery and settlement within East Africa from the late fifteenth- to the seventeenth century.
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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.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
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.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
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.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
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.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
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.