Travels on the St. Johns River, John Bartram, William Bartram

Автор: Flint Mitchell, Mitchell
Название: Seeking authenticity
ISBN: 1737728508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781737728504
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Автор: Hreinsson Karl Smari
Название: The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
ISBN: 0813228697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813228693
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in North Africa. Among those taken were the Lutheran minister Reverend Ólafur Egilsson.Reverend Ólafur (born in the same year as William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei) wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive in Algiers and as a traveler across Europe (he journeyed alone from Algiers to Copenhagen in an attempt to raise funds to ransom the captives that remained in the Barbary States). He was a keen observer, and the narrative is filled with a wealth of detail—social, political, economic, religious—about both the Maghreb and Europe. It is also a moving story on the human level: we witness a man enduring great personal tragedy and struggling to reconcile such calamity with his understandingof God. The Travels is the first-ever English translation of the Icelandic texts. Until now, the corsair raid on Iceland has remained largely unknown in the English speaking world. To give a clearer sense of the extraordinary events connected with that raid, this edition of The Travels includes not only Reverend Ólafur’s first-person narrative but also a wealth of contemporary letters describing both the events of the raid itself and the conditions in North Africa under which the enslaved Icelanders lived. The book has Appendices containing background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context.The combination of Reverend Ólafur’s narrative, the letters, and thematerial in the Appendices provides a first-hand, in-depth view of early seventeenth-century Europe and the Maghreb equaled by few otherworks dealing with the period. We are pleased to offer it to the wider audience that an English edition allows.

Автор: Barth
Название: Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa
ISBN: 1108029469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108029469
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This pioneering account, published in 1857-1858, was a foundational text in the study of African history and ethnography. Barth set out to `represent the tribes and nations ... in their historical and ethnographical relation to the rest of mankind`. Cited by Darwin, it is still regarded as an important source.

Название: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims
ISBN: 1611488206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611488203
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Описание: This book studies the travel accounts of five "lady travelers" to Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean. As eye-witness accounts, their books record the rise of independent republics in Spanish America. Women`s travels provide a fresh look at indigenous and African populations in the New World and analyze women`s social condition.

Автор: Alastair Hamilton
Название: Johann Michael Wansleben`s Travels in the Levant, 1671-1674: An Annotated Edition of His Italian Report
ISBN: 9004362142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004362147
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 166030.00 T
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Описание: Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in the Levant, 1671–1674 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Egypt and the Levant by the German scholar traveller Wansleben, or Vansleb (as he was known in France). He set out for the East in 1671 to collectmanuscripts and antiquities for the French king and also produced the best study of the Copts to have appeared to date. This book recounts his travels in Syria, Turkey and Egypt, his everyday life in Cairo, and his anthropological and archeological discoveries which include the Graeco-Roman Gabbari cemetery in Alexandria, the Roman city of Antinopolis on the Nile, the Coptic monastery of St Anthony on the Red Sea and the Red and White monasteries in Upper Egypt.

Автор: Chapin David
Название: Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond
ISBN: 0803246323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803246324
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known as a partner in Montreal’s North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada.

In this meticulous biography, David Chapin presents Pond’s life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution. Pond’s encounters with a plethora of distinct Native cultures over the course of his career shaped his life and defined his reputation. Whereas previous studies have caricatured Pond as quarrelsome and explosive, Chapin presents him as an intellectually curious, proud, talented, and ambitious man, living in a world that could often be quite violent. Chapin draws together a wide range of sources and information in presenting a deeper, more multidimensional portrait and understanding of Pond than hitherto has been available.

Автор: Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Название: The Travels of Elkanah Watson: An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States
ISBN: 1476662452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476662459
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone - soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American revolutionaries. At 19, he smuggled funds for the Revolution from Rhode Island to South Carolina in the midst of the war, while starting diaries he would keep throughout his life. Returning, he moved from New England to France, carrying letters from Congress to Benjamin Franklin in Paris before setting himself up as a merchant supplying arms to America. As the Revolutionary War came to a close, he delivered the United States' final messages to British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne.His tour of England impressed upon him the value of canals, new industries and enlightened agriculture, which he championed upon returning to America. Watson's travels in the U.S., Europe and Canada come to life in this illustrated biography based on his diaries and notes, and his vast collection of unpublished documents.

Название: The Royal Navy in River Plate 1806–1807
ISBN: 185928292X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781859282922
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book presents a collection of contemporary documents throwing light on the campaigns by the Royal Navy, in association with the army, on cities of the Spanish Empire in South America, beginning with the (unauthorised) assault on Buenos Aires in 1806, by Sir Home Popham.

Автор: Palmann Marion
Название: Papa`s Sketches: The Travels of Robert Macalister, Gentleman, in Paisley, Glasgow, and Largs
ISBN: 178963105X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789631050
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Описание: In the autumn of 1851, a fifty-year-old father of six set off from his home in Dublin on a sentimental journey to Perth in Scotland, the town of his birth. His journals describe the changes he observed as a result of the industrial revolution.

Название: General u. s. grant`s tour around the world
ISBN: 9354047424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789354047428
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Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Автор: Stevenson Robert Louis
Название: Travels with a donkey in the cevennes
ISBN: 1110539770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781110539772
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Автор: Moran, Michael
Название: Country in the moon
ISBN: 1847081045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847081049
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Описание: `Erudite, humbling and rhapsodic ... No thinking traveller interested in Poland should overlook this essential book` Guardian