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1.

The Longest Voyage: Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery » Read Now
by Robert Silverberg. 536 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...left their safe inland sea. The most famous of medieval travelers, Marco Polo...margins crammed with comments in the explorers hand. DAilly was both the last of...
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Explorers, Traders, and Slavers: Forging the Old Spanish Trail, 1678-1850 » Read Now
by Joseph P. Sanchez. 188 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the time, be overcome by the explorers, who were impressed with its...1577 Abraham Ortelius, the famous Dutch cartographer, published...same way Quivira drew Spanish...
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The Explorers: Great Adventurers Tell Their Own Stories of Discovery » Read Now
by G. R. Crone. 361 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...birthplace of their religion. One of the most famous of these travelling scholars was Hsuan-tsang...Russians should figure among the European explorers who furnished their...
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Great Adventures and Explorations from the Earliest Times to the Present, as Told by the Explorers Themselves » Read Now
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Olive Rathbun Wilcox. 788 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...impressive figure among Latin explorers, Prince Henry the Navigator...African slave trade; that other famous Latin, Columbus, became the...Against this, some of the...
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Western Women in Colonial Africa » Read Now
by Caroline Oliver. 201 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...patriotic. He wanted to be famous, and he wanted it to be "Old...of the nineteenth-century explorers, because they dressed in sensible...as dramatic in its way as a famous...
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The Portuguese Pioneers » Read Now
by Edgar Prestage. 352 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...University of London THE EXPLORERS OF NORTH AMERICA...anchor in Lagos Bay, famous in English as well...achievements of the explorers on this occasion, but...them, including...
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A Black Explorer at the North Pole » Read Now
by Matthew A. Henson. 198 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...What a wonderful opportunity for students to examine a personal account. There is information about the preparations, hardships, & the joy of achieving success. Reading...
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Explorers of Arabia from the Renaissance to the End of the Victorian Era » Read Now
by Zahra Freeth, H. V. F. Winstone. 308 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...EXPLORERS OF ARABIA EXPLORERS OF ARABIA From the Renaissance to the End of the Victorian...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Freeth, Zahra Dickson. Explorers of...
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Imagining Distance: Spanish Explorers in America, in Early American Literature » Read Now
by Richard Wiffin, William Phettipace, Anas Todkill. 20 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...IMAGINING DISTANCE: SPANISH EXPLORERS IN AMERICA PEGGY SAMUELS Graduate...imagining distance," that is, the explorers imagination of their own distance...the narratives...
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition » Read Now
by Gary E. Moulton, Patrick Gass. 302 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

In order that the fullest record possible be kept of the expedition, captains Lewis and Clark required their sergeants to keep journals to compensate for possible loss of the captains' own accounts. The sergeants' accounts extend and corroborate the journals of Lewis and Clark and contribute to the...
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In order that the fullest record possible be kept of the expedition, captains Lewis and Clark required their sergeants to keep journals to compensate for possible loss of the captains' own accounts. The sergeants' accounts extend and corroborate the journals of Lewis and Clark and contribute to the full record of the expedition. Volume 10 contains the journal of expedition member Sergeant Patrick Gass.
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Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark » Read Now
by Dayton Duncan. 202 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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David Livingstone: His Life and Letters » Read Now
by George Seaver. 649 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...journey, between forty and fifty miles, on foot. This, however, was no cause for regret, since the chief Sekomi father of the famous chief Khama who was then a youth "was...
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Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas » Read Now
by David A. Howard. 264 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

The current image of the Spanish conquest of America and of the conquistadores who carried it out is one of destruction and oppression. One conquistador does not fit that image. A life-changing adventure led Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca to seek a different kind of conquest, one that would be just and...
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The current image of the Spanish conquest of America and of the conquistadores who carried it out is one of destruction and oppression. One conquistador does not fit that image. A life-changing adventure led Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca to seek a different kind of conquest, one that would be just and humane, true to Spanish religion and law yet safeguarding liberty and justice for the Indians of the New World. His use of the skills learned from his experiences with the Indians of North America, however, did not always help him in understanding and managing the Indians of South America, and too many of the Spanish settlers in the Rio de la Plata Province found that his policies threatened their own interests and relations with the Indians. Eventually many of those Spaniards joined a conspiracy that removed him from power and returned him to Spain in chains.
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The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh (1879-1922), Vol. 2 » Read Now
by Walter Alexander Raleigh, Lady Raleigh. 299 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THE LETTERS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1879-1922 VOLUME II -ii- SIR WALTER RALEIGH, TAKEN AT BURFORD PRIORY THE LETTERS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1879-1922 EDITED BY...
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The Life of Matthew Flinders » Read Now
by Miriam Estensen. 538 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"A compellingly written, freshly researched insight into the life and times of Matthew Flinders, one of Australia's greatest explorers. From the author of 'Discovery'."