Conqueror Of The Seas
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Conqueror Of The Seas
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
Conqueror Of The Seas written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with categories.
Conqueror Of The Seas The Story Of Magellan
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Zweig Press
Release Date : 2008-11
Conqueror Of The Seas The Story Of Magellan written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Zweig Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with History categories.
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Magellan Conqueror Of The Seas
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2019-08-15
Magellan Conqueror Of The Seas written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed on behalf of the Spanish monarch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the straights that now bear his name and the Philippines. “Magellan is written in a tone of astonished wonder... a persuasive and crisp portrait of Magellan... Stefan Zweig brings the story of Magellan to life.” — Charles Poore, The New York Times “[A]n extremely well-written narrative, fired by a keen sense of justice, and with its dramatic and emotional qualities well sustained... [Zweig’s] own passion for his subject carries the story well.” — R. L. Duffus, The New York Times “A superb piece of reconstruction, intensely interesting first as a record of one of the greatest achievements in human history, and second, as a live picture of a tragic figure, Magellan, lonely and misunderstood and cheated at the end of the reward in recognition of the stupendous and courageous task he had envisioned and achieved. Fascinating reading, and enlightening as a minutely detailed picture of the problems faced and met, from the first step to the last. A book which will last...” — Kirkus Review “Zweig’s story opens with a fascinating chapter on spices. He explains the reasons for Magellan’s sailing under a Spanish flag after a youth spent in the service of Portugal. Such matters as the making of Magellan’s will, the absurd circumstances of his death, the reception of the 18 who returned, the corruption at court, are told in the light of present-day psychology and with an understanding of human nature that makes this tale of an adventurer excellent and provocative reading.” — The English Journal “Zweig’s accumulated historical and cultural studies, whether in essay or monograph form, remain a body of achievement almost too impressive to take in... Full-sized books on Marie-Antoinette, Mary Stuart, and Magellan were international best sellers.” — Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
Conqueror Of The Seas
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language : en
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Release Date : 1940
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Conqueror Of The Seas The Story Of Magellan Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-14
Conqueror Of The Seas The Story Of Magellan Scholar S Choice Edition written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-14 with categories.
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The Conqueror
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Author : Aditya Iyengar
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-05-20
The Conqueror written by Aditya Iyengar and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-20 with Fiction categories.
Kingdoms are built by men. Legacies are built by emperors. It is 1025 AD. The mighty Chola empire that controls much of southern Bharatvarsha is helmed by Emperor Rajendra Chola I – a man as enigmatic as his kingdom is renowned. Known for his might and vision, he has now set his sights upon the southern seas, governed by the powerful Srivijaya empire. But his victories also bring forth stories of those affected by his ambition. Of an unnamed princess forced to fend for herself among enemies after everything she has ever known is destroyed by the ravaging Chola forces. Of Maharaja Sangrama, captive in an alien land, who is torn between his enmity tempered by an unusual friendship with the elusive Rajendra Chola and his fierce determination to return to his kingdom. Told through the eyes of a prisoner of war and a princess without a kingdom, The Conqueror is a magnificent narrative – of war and conquest, of loss and death, of kingship and legacy.
The Grand Turk
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Author : John Freely
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-02-28
The Grand Turk written by John Freely and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-28 with History categories.
Sultan Mehmet II, the Grand Turk, known to his countrymen as Fatih, 'the Conqueror', and to much of Europe as 'the present Terror of the World', was once the most feared and powerful ruler in the world. The seventh of his line to rule the Ottoman Turks, Mehmet was barely 21 when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople, which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. Mehmet reigned for 30 years, during which time his armies extended the borders of his empire halfway across Asia Minor and as far into Europe as Hungary and Italy. Three popes called for crusades against him as Christian Europe came face to face with a new Muslim empire.Mehmet himself was an enigmatic figure. Revered by the Turks and seen as a cruel and brutal tyrant by the west, he was a brilliant military leader but also a renaissance prince who had in his court Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers and Italian scholars and artists. In this, the first biography of Mehmet for 30 years, John Freely vividly brings to life the world in which Mehmet lived and illuminates the man behind the myths, a figure who dominated both East and West from his palace above the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, where an inscription still hails him as, 'Sultan of the two seas, shadow of God in the two worlds, God's servant between the two horizons, hero of the water and the land, conqueror of the stronghold of Constantinople."
William The Conqueror
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Author : Jacob Abbott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-18
William The Conqueror written by Jacob Abbott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-18 with categories.
It lies, as will be seen upon the map, on the coast of France, adjoining the EnglishChannel. The Channel is here irregular in form, but may be, perhaps, on theaverage, one hundred miles wide. The line of coast on the southern side of theChannel, which forms, of course, the northern border of Normandy, is a range ofcliffs, which are almost perpendicular toward the sea, and which frown forbiddinglyupon every ship that sails along the shore. Here and there, it is true, a river opens apassage for itself among these cliffs from the interior, and these river mouthswould form harbors into which ships might enter from the offing, were it not thatthe northwestern winds prevail so generally, and drive such a continual swell ofrolling surges in upon the shore, that they choke up all these estuary openings, aswell as every natural indentation of the land, with shoals and bars of sand andshingle. The reverse is the case with the northern, or English shore of this famouschannel. There the harbors formed by the mouths of the rivers, or by thesinuosities of the shore, are open and accessible, and at the same time shelteredfrom the winds and the sea. Thus, while the northern or English shore has been, formany centuries, all the time enticing the seaman in and out over the calm, deep, and sheltered waters which there penetrate the land, the southern side has been analmost impassable barrier, consisting of a long line of frowning cliffs, with everyopening through it choked with shoals and sand-banks, and guarded by the rollingand tumbling of surges which scarcely ever rest.It is in a great measure owing to these great physical differences between the twoshores, that the people who live upon the one side, though of the same stock andorigin with those who live upon the other, have become so vastly superior to themin respect to naval exploits and power. They are really of the same stock and origin, since both England and the northern part of France were overrun and settled bywhat is called the Scandinavian race, that is, people from Norway, Denmark, andother countries on the Baltic. These people were called the Northmen in thehistories of those times. Those who landed in England are generally termed Danes, though but a small portion of them came really from Denmark. They were all, however, of the same parent stock, and possessed the same qualities of courage, 5energy, and fearless love of adventure and of danger which distinguish theirdescendants at the present day. They came down in those early times in greatmilitary hordes, and in fleets of piratical ships, through the German Ocean and thevarious British seas, braving every hardship and every imaginable danger, to findnew regions to dwell in, more genial, and fertile, and rich than their own nativenorthern climes. In these days they evince the same energy, and endure equalprivations and hardships, in hunting whales in the Pacific Ocean; in overrunningIndia, and seizing its sources of wealth and power; or in sallying forth, whole fleetsof adventurers at a time, to go more than half round the globe, to dig for gold inCalifornia. The times and circumstances have changed, but the race and spirit arethe s
Magellan
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Author : Stefan Zweig
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Magellan written by Stefan Zweig and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and led the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed en route in a battle in the Philippines. In this biography, Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery by telling the tale of one of the era's most daring adventurers, whose astounding feats of navigation heralded the modern age.
On The Ocean
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Author : Sir Barry Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-29
On The Ocean written by Sir Barry Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with History categories.
For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there - a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas — the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.