John Cabot S Matthew 1497 1997
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The Voyage Of The Matthew
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Author : P. L. Firstbrook
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited
Release Date : 1997
The Voyage Of The Matthew written by P. L. Firstbrook and has been published by McClelland & Stewart Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Science categories.
On 24 June 1497, the Genoese adventurer John Cabot, bearing letters patent from King Henry VII, became the first European known to have set foot in North America. (Cabot’s contemporary, Christopher Columbus, never actually landed in North America. To his dying day he thought it was the Orient.) Cabot’s triumphant appropriation of the “New Founde Land” for England capped one of the great maritime adventures of the late fifteenth century. Five hundred years later, the Matthew, a painstakingly constructed replica of Cabot’s three-masted caravel, sailed from Bristol, England, to Bonavista, Newfoundland. Her arrival marked the culmination of a maritime adventure as daring in its way as the voyage it commemorates. This time, however, the trials of the captain and sailors on board were recorded on camera and in reporters' notebooks for armchair onlookers to enjoy. Peter Firstbrook has been intimately involved in the recreation of Cabot’s voyage, from the laying down of the modern-day Matthew’s keel in 1993 to its sea trials in 1996 and the voyage itself in 1997. In these pages he relates all that is known about the fifteenth-century adventurer and describes the many challenges that confronted the team that set out to replicate his voyage. The book concludes, like Cabot’s own life, with a mystery: there is no record of how the great seafarer ended his days. He may have simply retired. He may have been lost in a storm on his last attempted voyage to America. Or he may, in fact, have returned to the newly discovered continent only to be murdered by a notorious Spanish buccaneer. This is a finely wrought story of adventure and discovery that will delight and entertain readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
John Cabot And The Matthew
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Author : Ian Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Release Date : 1996
John Cabot And The Matthew written by Ian Wilson and has been published by Breakwater Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Grade level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s.
Historical Dictionary Of The Discovery And Exploration Of The Northwest Passage
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Author : Alan Day
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2006-01-03
Historical Dictionary Of The Discovery And Exploration Of The Northwest Passage written by Alan Day and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-03 with History categories.
The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
Opening Up North America 1497 1800
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Author : Caroline Cox
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Opening Up North America 1497 1800 written by Caroline Cox and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Explorers categories.
Opening Up North America, 1497-1800, Revised Edition integrates in a chronological narrative the voyages taken from Florida to Newfoundland, covering the first recorded contact of John Cabot in 1497 through Alexander Mackenzie's journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific in 1793. Through these stories, the geography of northeastern North America is pieced together and the impact European exploration had on Native American society continues to be felt today. Coverage of this title includes: the importance of cod fishing in the North Atlantic; Beaver hats and the role played by the fur trade in exploration of the continent's interior; Spanish, French, and English claims to territory in the southeast in the 16th century; and, exploration by Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Henry Hudson, Etienne Brule, Rene-Robert Cavaller, Sieur de La Salle, and others.
A Re Construction Of John Cabot S Matthew
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Author : John Cabot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A Re Construction Of John Cabot S Matthew written by John Cabot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography categories.
Sea Dogs
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Author : James Seay Dean
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Sea Dogs written by James Seay Dean and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with History categories.
'James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages ... he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging circumstances these redoubtable sailors faced "beyond the line".' – Professor Barry Gough, maritime historian 'A fascinating and informative account of the development of Tudor and Stuart sailing ships. Its examination of their architecture, sailing, and tactics, especially as it is set within the international political context, makes a most interesting story.' – Bryan Barrett, Commander RN, ret. From jacktar to captain, what was life like aboard an Elizabethan ship? How did the men survive tropical heat, storms, bad water, rotten food, disease, poor navigation, shifting cargoes and enemy fire? Would a sailor return alive? Sea Dogs follows in the footsteps of the average sailor, drawing from the accounts of sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century ocean voyages to convey the realities of everyday life aboard the galleons sailing between England and the West Indies and beyond. Celebrating the extraordinary drive and courage of those early sailors who left the familiarity of their English estuaries for the dangers of the Cabo Verde and the Caribbean, the Rivers Amazonas and Orinoco, and the Strait of Magellan, and their remarkable achievements, Sea Dogs is essential reading for anyone with an interest in English maritime heritage.
Vinland Revisited
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Author : Shannon Lewis-Simpson
language : en
Publisher: St. John's, N.L. : Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
Release Date : 2003
Vinland Revisited written by Shannon Lewis-Simpson and has been published by St. John's, N.L. : Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with America categories.
The Boundless Sea
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Author : David Abulafia
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
The Boundless Sea written by David Abulafia and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Navigation categories.
"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"--
Notes And Queries A Medium Of Inter Communication For Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Notes And Queries A Medium Of Inter Communication For Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.
Breaking The Dead Silence
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Author : Christina Horvath
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-21
Breaking The Dead Silence written by Christina Horvath and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with History categories.
An Open Access edition will be available on publication. The murder of George Floyd in 2020, the renewed international take up of the cry Black Lives Matter and the subsequent toppling of a statue commemorating slave-merchant-turned-philanthropist Edward Colston in Bristol provoked urgent questions on memorialisation, white privilege, social justice and repair. Debates on how legacies of colonialism and empire in Britain should be addressed spilled out of the scholarly world into the public discourse. In the immediate wake of the statue toppling this book offers a unique, distinctive and timely contribution to those debates: a series of voices and experiences are offered as critical commentaries and accounts of recent interventions on an official heritage narrative. It sets out to break the ‘dead silence’, by bringing together diverse perspectives from academics, artists, activists, heritage professionals and tourist guides. The book offers fresh insights, referencing work attending to the impacts and legacies of colonisation primarily in Bath and Bristol, augmented with comparative contributions from Lancaster and Mexico offering significant and pertinent resonances. A range of strategies are explored towards enabling silenced voices to be heard and engage in conversations about how the past is represented, including Co-Creation, new agonistic museum practices, innovative creative and somatic approaches.