Автор: Mcnab, Andy Rigby, Robert Название: Meltdown ISBN: 0552552240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552552240 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to act fast, and when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the Canadian lakes, 18-year-old Danny and his grandfather, are once again sucked into an operation and a race against time.
Автор: Nigel Rigby, Pieter van der Merwe and Glyn William Название: Pacific Exploration ISBN: 1472957733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472957733 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 19790.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. Despite his ordinary roots, he rose through the ranks to become a remarkable officer. On May 27, 1768, Cook, then just a Royal Naval lieutenant, took command of HM bark Endeavour. Its voyage of exploration to the Pacific would last almost three years, record thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas--including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands--and test all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. Cook's three voyages were among the first to take civilian scientists, notably Sir Joseph Banks, and they would reveal to European eyes the lands, peoples, flora and fauna of the Pacific as never before, heralding a period of great change for the region. His voyages would also set new standards for scientific enquiry and exploration.
But while the figure of Cook understandably dominates the story of 18th-century Pacific exploration, his fame has often shadowed those who followed him on many voyages of science and exploration into the Pacific, depriving these explorers of the greater attention they deserve. Correcting this imbalance, Pacific Encounters reveals the European voyages that continued Cook's work not only of charting but also starting to exploit and control the Pacific. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, Malaspina, Lap rouse and Arthur Phillip, span a period that saw Britain becoming the world's leading maritime power, a situation well in place by the time that Charles Darwin's voyage in Fitzroy's Beagle laid the basis of even greater understanding of the development of life on earth.
Recounting and illustrating these achievements and legacies using fascinating text and beautiful illustrations and artworks from the period, this book explores topics of scientific discovery, engagement with indigenous peoples, the use of shipboard artists and scientists, the growing professionalism of the hydrographic service, the vessels used and the colonial, commercial and imperial contexts of the voyages.
Автор: Rigby David Название: Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway ISBN: 1472834739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472834737 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 24750.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States.
Автор: H.V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln, Nigel Rigby Название: The Worlds of the East India Company ISBN: 1843830736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843830733 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Цена: 31670.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid the foundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia. This first multi-disciplinary history of the Company to be published commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of this unique and extraordinary institution. Historians of art, culture, cartography, empire, politics, the sea, and trade, explore the origins, operation, and influence of the Company as an organisation that remained firmly engaged in maritime commercial activity in many different spheres, even as it acted as a powerful agent of territorial expansion on the Indian subcontinent. H.V. BOWEN is senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Leicester; NIGEL RIGBY and MARGARETTE LINCOLN work in the research department of the National Maritime Museum, London.
Автор: Douglas Coupland Название: Eleanor Rigby ISBN: 1582346410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781582346410 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 3540.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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