British Narratives Of Exploration
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British Narratives Of Exploration
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Author : Frédéric Regard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
British Narratives Of Exploration written by Frédéric Regard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
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.
Tracing The Connected Narrative
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Author : Janice Cavell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-11
Tracing The Connected Narrative written by Janice Cavell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with categories.
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as an ongoing story in the literary sense. Because this 'story' appeared, like so many nineteenth-century novels, in a series of installments in periodicals and reviews, it gained an appeal similar to that of fiction. Tracing the Connected Narrative examines written representations of nineteenth-century British expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. It places Arctic narratives in the broader context of the print culture of their time, especially periodical literature, which played an important role in shaping the public's understanding of Arctic exploration. Janice Cavell uncovers similarities between the presentation of exploration reports in periodicals and the serialized fiction that, she argues, predisposed readers to take an interest in the prolonged quest for the Northwest Passage. Cavell examines the same parallel in relation to the famous disappearance and subsequent search for the Franklin expedition. After the fate of Sir John Franklin had finally been revealed, the Illustrated London News printed a list of earlier articles on the missing expedition, suggesting that the public might wish to re-read them in order to 'trace the connected narrative' of this chapter in the Arctic story. Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell undertakes this task and, in the process, recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.
Tracing The Connected Narrative The Literature Of British Arctic Exploration 1818 1860
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Author : Janice Cavell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Tracing The Connected Narrative The Literature Of British Arctic Exploration 1818 1860 written by Janice Cavell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Arctic regions categories.
Tracing The Connected Narrative
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Author : Janice Cavell
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Tracing The Connected Narrative written by Janice Cavell and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.
British Discovery Literature And The Rise Of Global Commerce
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Author : A. Neill
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-05-10
British Discovery Literature And The Rise Of Global Commerce written by A. Neill and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic characters report on remote parts of the globe in the twin contexts of an increasingly powerful imperial state and an emerging world economy. Examining voyage narratives by William Dampler, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, James Cook, and William Bligh, Neill demonstrates how the transformation of travellers from nomadic outlaws into civil subjects , and vice versa, takes place against the political-economic backdrop of commercial expansion.
The Exploration Treasury
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Author : Beau Riffenburgh
language : en
Publisher: Andre Deutsch
Release Date : 2017
The Exploration Treasury written by Beau Riffenburgh and has been published by Andre Deutsch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
From Britain's renowned Royal Geographical Society comes a beautiful collector's box--complete with 20 double-sided prints and an accompanying paperback--that captures 100 years of world exploration. From its founding in 1830, the Royal Geographical Society became the institution to which travellers and explorers of many nationalities came for advice and recognition. Over the years it amassed a wealth of paintings, photographs, maps, and official accounts. Covering the first century of the Society's existence and a period of intense scientific exploration into unfamiliar and unknown regions of the globe, this treasury celebrates a series of distinguished expeditions through the visual material created by official artists, photographers, expedition teams, and solitary travellers. Alongside famous explorers such as Livingstone, Scott and Shackleton, and Nansen and Amundsen, are travellers such as David Roberts in Egypt and Isabella Bird in China. Other chapters cover the work of archaeologists--including Aurel Stein's excavations along the Silk Road and Alfred Maudslay's documentation of Mayan ruins in Central America--and the desert exploits of colonial administrators, diplomats, and scientists. For each expedition there are one or two accompanying prints, including the watercolors of Thomas Baines, who joined Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition before journeying to Victoria Falls with James Chapman, early photographs of Yosemite by Carleton Watkins, and the artwork and photographs of Harry Hamilton Johnston in Africa.
Reinterpreting Exploration
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Author : Dane Keith Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2014
Reinterpreting Exploration written by Dane Keith Kennedy and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters offering broad geographic range, the contributors address many of the key themes of recent research on exploration, including exploration's contribution to European imperial expansion, Western scientific knowledge, Enlightenment ideas and practices, and metropolitan print culture. They reassess indigenous peoples' responses upon first contacts with European explorers, their involvement as intermediaries in the operations of expeditions, and the complications that their prior knowledge posed for European claims of discovery. Underscoring that exploration must be seen as a process of mediation between representation and reality, this book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to the ongoing reinterpretation of exploration's role in the making of the modern world.
Literature Of Travel And Exploration
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Author : Jennifer Speake
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-12
Literature Of Travel And Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Narrative Of An Expedition Into Central Australia
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Author : Charles Sturt
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Narrative Of An Expedition Into Central Australia written by Charles Sturt and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with History categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia" by Charles Sturt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Masters Of All They Surveyed
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Author : D. Graham Burnett
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2000
Masters Of All They Surveyed written by D. Graham Burnett and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and scientific exploration in Britain's unique South American colony, Guyana. How did nineteenth-century Europeans turn areas they called terra incognita into bounded colonial territories? How did a tender-footed gentleman, predisposed to seasickness (and unable to swim), make his way up churning rivers into thick jungle, arid savanna, and forbidding mountain ranges, survive for the better part of a decade, and emerge with a map? What did that map mean? In answering these questions, D. Graham Burnett brings to light the work of several such explorers, particularly Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, the man who claimed to be the first to reach the site of Ralegh's El Dorado. Commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society and later by the British Crown, Schomburgk explored and mapped regions in modern Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana, always in close contact with Amerindian communities. Drawing heavily on the maps, reports, and letters that Schomburgk sent back to England, and especially on the luxuriant images of survey landmarks in his Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (reproduced in color in this book), Burnett shows how a vast network of traverse surveys, illustrations, and travel narratives not only laid out the official boundaries of British Guiana but also marked out a symbolic landscape that fired the British imperial imagination. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Masters of All They Surveyed will interest anyone who wants to understand the histories of colonialism and science.