Expedition To Disaster
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Expedition To Disaster
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Author : Philip Matyszak
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-01-19
Expedition To Disaster written by Philip Matyszak and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-19 with History categories.
This thrillingly vivid history recounts a pivotal battle of the Peloponnesian War, bringing the drama and personalities of the Sicilian Expedition to life. The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the most significant military events of the classical period. At the time, Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to win Athens the extra money and resources needed to crush the Spartans. With the aid of new archaeological discoveries, Expedition to Disaster reconstructs the mission, and the ensuing siege, in greater detail than ever before. The cast of characters includes Alcibiades, the flamboyant, charismatic young aristocrat; Nicias, the ageing, reluctant commander of the ill-fated expedition, and Gylippus, the grim Spartan general sent to command the defense of Syracuse. It was he who turned the tables on the Athenian invaders. They were surrounded, besieged, and forced to ask for mercy from a man who had none. Philip Matyszak's combination of thorough research and gripping narrative presents an episode of ancient history packed with colorful characters and dramatic tension.
I Ve Been Gone Far Too Long
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Author : Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
language : en
Publisher: RDR Books
Release Date : 1996
I Ve Been Gone Far Too Long written by Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and has been published by RDR Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'The ultimate armchair travel ... I've Been Gone Far Too Long is the perfect way to explore without getting bitten.' - Publishers Weekly 'Gripping ... well written. Disaster is usually but a couple of pages away in this collection.' - San Jose Mercury News
Island Of The Blue Foxes
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Author : Stephen R. Bown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Island Of The Blue Foxes written by Stephen R. Bown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with History categories.
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.
Writing Arctic Disaster
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Author : Adriana Craciun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-17
Writing Arctic Disaster written by Adriana Craciun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.
The Australian Expedition The Disaster Of Burke And Wills
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Author : Andrew Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-09
The Australian Expedition The Disaster Of Burke And Wills written by Andrew Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with History categories.
Using extracts from the original diaries and journals of Burke and Wills, along with evidence from the Royal Commission that followed the disaster, this illustrated book retells the story of one of the most ill-fated expeditions of the Victorian age.The Australian Exploration Expedition of 1860 had the intention of crossing the vast Australian continent from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the North, a 2000 mile trek that no European had attempted before. Robert O'Hara Burke, an Anglo-Irish soldier and police officer was chosen to lead the expedition, although he had no relevant experience, George Landells was second-in-command, and William John Wills was chosen as surveyor and navigator. In August 1860, the expedition set out from Melbourne watched by hundreds of spectators. It took them two months to reach Menindee, a journey the mail coach completed regularly in just over a week. Landells had by now resigned along with the surgeon, and thirteen others had been sacked. Wills was promoted and eight new men hired.Burke later made the decision to split the group up and pushed northwards through the Australian summer, arranging to meet up at Cooper Creek in three months. Burke, Wills, John King and Charley Grey reached the Gulf of Carpentaria in February 1861, but because of mangrove swamps they could not reach the coast, so they began their long return journey. The men remaining at Cooper Creek finally had to leave after 18 weeks because of sickness and lack of food, but they left supplies buried at the 'Dig Tree'. They famously missed them by a matter of hours. Of the four men left in the outback, Grey died a few days later, Burke and Wills died of starvation after several weeks, and the lone survivor, John King, was looked after by the Aborigines until his rescue in September 1861.
Ice Blink
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Author : Scott Cookman
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-04-21
Ice Blink written by Scott Cookman and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-21 with History categories.
"Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism) found by searchers sent to look for Franklin in the 1850s. Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration."--Booklist "A great Victorian adventure story rediscovered and re-presented for a more enquiring time."--The Scotsman "A vivid, sometimes harrowing chronicle of miscalculation and overweening Victorian pride in untried technology.a work of great compassion."--The Australian It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were spotted for the last time by two whalers in Baffin Bay. What happened to these ships----and to the 129 men on board----has remained one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Drawing upon original research, Scott Cookman provides an unforgettable account of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, vividly reconstructing the lives of those touched by the voyage and its disaster. But, more importantly, he suggests a human culprit and presents a terrifying new explanation for what triggered the deaths of Franklin and all 128 of his men. This is a remarkable and shocking historical account of true-life suspense and intrigue.
Anatomy Of A Naval Disaster
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Author : James S. Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1995
Anatomy Of A Naval Disaster written by James S. Pritchard and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
A compelling account of one of the most ambitious and catastrophic French naval expeditions in the eighteenth century.
Disaster At The Pole
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Author : Wilbur Cross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Disaster At The Pole written by Wilbur Cross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Arctic regions categories.
The true story of the harrowing wreck of the airship Italia during a polar expedition and the heroic rescue attempts to save her and her crew. This is an intriguing and heart-stopping account of the tragic aviation disaster of Commander Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautic engineer and airship designer, as he led an expedition to cross the North Pole in the dirigible airship, Italia. Nobile and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had previously led the first successful trip across the North Pole from Europe to America in the airship Norge, beating the attempts by American explorer Admiral Richard Byrd, during history's exciting period known as the Golden Age of Aviation. During an artic storm, the Italia suddenly crashed on an ice pack and the crew was stranded, leading to one of the world's greatest international search and rescue efforts, involving countries such as Russia, Norway, Italy, France and Great Britain.The story is both of the tremendous efforts and heroism of the many search and rescue expeditions, including internationally famous artic explorer Roald Amundsen, who was never seen again, as well as the courage and determination of Nobile and the Italia crew as they battled the elements of the polar ice fields for survival. The event also stirred international politics as Nobile was a well-known opponent to Mussolini's fascist regime and Mussolini is said to have thwarted the successful rescue of Nobile and his crew.In researching this book, author Cross personally went to Italy and interviewed Umberto Nobile as well as nine other survivors from the crash. He also worked with and interviewed the officers at the Norwegian airbase from which the Italia flew on its fatal flight. Additional information came from the Dartmouth University Institute of Artic Studies, including interviews with renowned artic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansseon, who personally knew General Nobile.
Disaster On The Spanish Main
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Author : Craig S. Chapman
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-10
Disaster On The Spanish Main written by Craig S. Chapman and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with History categories.
Disaster on the Spanish Main presents a thoroughly researched and gripping account of the 1741–42 West Indies expedition from its roots in the commercial-imperial conflicts between Britain and Spain to its eventual unraveling in death and despair.
Escape From Disaster
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Author : Peter Lerangis
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2000-01
Escape From Disaster written by Peter Lerangis and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In the darkest hours of 1911, mutiny, doubt, and disaster threaten to destroy Captain James Winslow's secret expedition to the South Pole. The Mystery is frozen in the ice, and Winslow and his sons face the ultimate test of endurance, loyalty, and survival.