State-of-the-art cartography is organized chronologically by region to chart the fascinating course of North American exploration from the pre-Columbian voyages to the race to the North Pole in 1909.

The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole

History

Swanston, Malcolm

Goetzmann, William H.

Williams, Glyndwr

Lewis, Isabelle

Land, Jacqueline

Americas

Macmillan General* Reference

Ever since classical times, when men first imagined a great continent in the southern hemisphere, the idea of Terra Australia has kept a strong hold on the European imagination. This superbly illustrated volume--featuring 60 color and 100 black-and-white plates--provides a comprehensive history of those various ideas, from earliest times to the present day.   In an informative introductory chapter, the editors set out the various theories and speculations that have been floated over the centuries; and successive chapters describe the expeditions and discoveries accomplished by the British, Portuguese, and Dutch.  The Dieppe maps, which mark the continent as a Portuguese discovey, are reproduced in their entirety for the first time. Two final chapters cover the exploration of New South Wales and the gradual emergence of an overall picture of the entire continent.   Filled with fascinating charts and maps, this magificent volume will delight anyone interested in the great sea explorers or the history of ideas.

Terra Australis to Australia

Frost, Alan

Oxford University Press

New Haven, Yale University, 1997, 8vo (cm. 24 x 16) tutta tela editoriale con fregi e titoli dorati al dorso e sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. XVI-300 con 77 illustrazioni e carte nel testo.

The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750

Travel

Yale University Press

The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution

Africa

Routledge

Designed to meet the needs of first year history students and of students from other disciplines, this book contains both a continuous narrative thread and analytical sections which often cross chronological boundaries. It covers political history, containing only as much of the economic and social dimensions as are essential to an understanding of the politics of the period. The book begins with a look at the political instability of 17th century England, the policies of James II and the invasion of William of Orange, the Revolution settlement and the Presbyterian dominance in Scotland and confiscation in Ireland. It then goes on to look at William III and Anne including coverage of the Union with Scotland, Goldophin and Marlborough, the Sacheverell affair, Harley and the Treaty of Utrecht. George I, the Jacobite risings and the South Sea Bubble and Walpole are discussed followed by George III and the emergence of Methodism, Wilkes and radicalism, relations with America and Spain and the Stamp Act. The following chapters cover Pitt's achievements and foreign policy in India, France, America and Ireland. The problems of the early 19th century with the Corn Law, Peterloo and the Six Acts, the Swing riots and the effects of the Reform Act are covered together with Britain's industrial lead and overseas expansion. Victorian political parties and government policies are then discussed plus the emergence of trade unions and the Labour party. The sections on the 20th century look at the impact of the Wars and government policies such as Labour's public ownership debate and the NHS and conclude with an assessment of more recent leaders such as Heath, Wilson, Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher.

Ruling Britannia: A Political History of Britain 1688-1988

Ramsden, John

Europe

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

For more than five hundred years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America, some in search of a route to the East or fabled cities of gold, others seeking the glossy pelts of the beaver or souls to convert. From the early voyages of Norse seafarers to the opening of the American, Canadian, and Alaskan frontiers and the grueling twentieth-century race to the North Pole, this great adventure is captured as never before in the lavishly illustrated Atlas of North American Exploration. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann and exploration historian Glyndwr Williams, The Atlas of North American Exploration presents this bold drama through more than one hundred full-color maps employing state-of-the-art cartographic techniques. The routes of explorers Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Daniel Boone, Vitus Bering, Lewis and Clark, Admiral Peary, and dozens more are charted, showing the sites of encounters with native inhabitants or rival colonial powers, shipwrecks and uprisings, settlements and trading posts, and the death or disappearance of expeditions.

University of Oklahoma Press

Documents Relating to Anson's Voyage Round the World 1740-1744

Ghost-writing is not a twentieth Century invention. In this volume for the Navy Records Society Dr Williams revealed that the classic best-seller, ‘A Voyage round the World by George Anson‘, purportedly written by Anson’s chaplain Richard Walter, had in fact been ghost-written by Benjamin Robins, a man who had not sailed on the voyage. Describing the ‘Walter narrative’, Dr Williams wrote: ‘In substance it was Anson’s account, ghosted for him by an accomplished writer, and it should be regarded as an apologia for Anson’s own conduct rather than as an impartial memoir’. No student of Anson’s epic voyage can ignore this NRS study which looks in detail at the origins of the voyage, its preparations and preliminary activities, the first stage of the voyage round Cape Horn, the second stage across the Pacific to Macao, the capture of the Spanish treasure galleon from Acapulco, Anson’s triumphal homecoming and the populist welcome given to the procession of thirty-two waggons laden with treasure on its journey from Portsmouth to London. Dr Williams also examined the historical significance of the Voyage. Was it a throwback to the privateering days of Drake or should it be interpreted in the light of the subsequent development of the worldwide British Empire? ‘The documents printed here’, according to Dr Williams, ‘show that the discussions about the projected Pacific expeditions in 1739 were dominated by men who were looking to the future.’

Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. Italian-born, Malaspina entered the Spanish navy in 1774. In September 1788 he and fellow-officer José Bustamante submitted a plan to the Ministry of Marine for a voyage of survey and inspection to Spanish territories in the Americas and Philippines. The expedition was to produce hydrographic charts for the use of Spanish merchantmen and warships and to report on the political, economic and defensive state of Spain's overseas possessions. The plan was approved and in July 1789 Malaspina and Bustamante sailed from CÃ¡diz in the purpose-built corvettes, Descubierta and Atrevida. On board the vessels were scientists and artists and an array of the latest surveying and astronomical instruments. The voyage lasted more than five years. On his return Malaspina was promoted Brigadier de la Real Armada, and began work on an account of the voyage in seven volumes to dwarf the narratives of his predecessors in the Pacific such as Cook and Bougainville. Among much else, it would contain sweeping recommendations for reform in the governance of Spain's overseas empire. But Malaspina became involved in political intrigue. In November 1795 he was arrested, stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment. Although released in 1803, Malaspina spent the last seven years of his life in obscure retirement in Italy. He never resumed work on the great edition, and his journal was not published in Spain until 1885. Only in recent years has a multi-volume edition appeared under the auspices of the Museo Naval, Madrid, that does justice to the achievements of what for long was a forgotten voyage. This first volume of a series of three contains Malaspina's diario or journal from 31 July 1789 to 14 December 1790, newly translated into English, with substantial introduction and commentary. Among the places visited and described are Montevideo, Puerto Deseado, Port Egmont, Puerto San Carlos, ValparaÃso, Callao, Guayaquil and PanamÃ¡. Other texts include Malaspina's introduction to his intended edition, and his correspondence with the Minister of the Marine before and during the voyage.

The Malaspina Expedition 1789–1794: Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá (Hakluyt Society Series, 3)

DAVID, Andrew

Fernandez, Armesto Felipe

Hakluyt Society

The Malaspina Expedition 1789–1794: Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá (Hakluyt Society, Third)

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The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole

Terra Australis to Australia

The Great South Sea: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750

The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution

Ruling Britannia: A Political History of Britain 1688-1988

The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution

The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole

Documents Relating to Anson's Voyage Round the World 1740-1744

The Malaspina Expedition 1789–1794: Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá (Hakluyt Society Series, 3)

The Malaspina Expedition 1789–1794: Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume I: Cádiz to Panamá (Hakluyt Society, Third)