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The Phantom Voyagers
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Author : Robert Dick-Read
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Phantom Voyagers written by Robert Dick-Read and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Secret Voyages To The New World
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Author : Gunnar Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010
Secret Voyages To The New World written by Gunnar Thompson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with America categories.
The best introduction to multiethnic New World Discovery before Columbus. Nine true adventures featuring Hatshepsut, King Solomon, Xu Fu, Marco Polo, Nicholas of Lynn, Zheng He, Martin Behaim, Amerigo Vespucci, King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth, and Francis Drake. Includes first maize (Indian corn) in Egypt, early maps of America before Columbus, Roman Florida, Albertin di Virga's 1414 map of Peru and North America, ancient artifacts and faces of Old World voyagers in Mexico and Peru, and Francis Drake's amazing "clock map." Excellent coffee-table book; great for adults and young readers. Beautifully illustrated; excellent index and bibliography. A fun read that is also packed with new information about secret voyages, forbidden lands, and enigmas the pros have missed.
The Phantom Of The Forest
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Author : Emerson Bennett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
The Phantom Of The Forest written by Emerson Bennett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with American literature categories.
The Phantom Atlas
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Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-03
The Phantom Atlas written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS 'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr 'A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' - Jonathan Ross The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology are all brought together to create a colourful tapestry of monsters, heroes and volcanoes; swindlers, mirages and murderers. Sometimes the stories are almost impossible to believe, and remarkably, some of the errors were still on display in maps published in the 21st century. Throughout much of the 19th century more than 40 different mapmakers included the Mountains of Kong, a huge range of peaks stretching across the entire continent of Africa, in their maps - but it was only in 1889 when Louis Gustave Binger revealed the whole thing to be a fake. For centuries, explorers who headed to Patagonia returned with tales of the giants they had met who lived there, some nine feet tall. Then there was Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish explorer who returned to London to sell shares in a land he had discovered in South America. He had been appointed the Cazique of Poyais, and bestowed with many honours by the local king of this unspoiled paradise. Now he was offering others the chance to join him and make their fortune there, too - once they had paid him a bargain fee for their passage... The Phantom Atlas is a beautifully produced volume, packed with stunning maps and drawingsof places and people that never existed. The remarkable stories behind them all are brilliantly told by Edward Brooke-Hitching in a book that will appeal to cartophiles everywhere.
The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with categories.
The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation
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Author : Richard Hakluyt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-17
The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation written by Richard Hakluyt 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 2014-04-17 with History categories.
This twelve-volume edition of the geographical works of Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was published in 1903-5.
Empire Of The Winds
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Author : Philip Bowring
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-29
Empire Of The Winds written by Philip Bowring and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with History categories.
Nusantaria – often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' – is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the lands and shores created by the melting of the ice following the last Ice Age. These have long been primarily the domain of the Austronesian-speaking peoples and their seafaring traditions. The surrounding waters have always been uniquely important as a corridor connecting East Asia to India, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. In this book, Philip Bowring provides a history of the world's largest and most important archipelago and its adjacent coasts. He tells the story of the peoples and lands located at this crucial maritime and cultural crossroads, from its birth following the last Ice Age to today.
Islands As Crossroads
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Author : Tim Curtis
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Islands As Crossroads written by Tim Curtis and has been published by UNESCO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This book brings together information on various disciplines from the three main island regions of the world - the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean - to explore the ways in which the peoples of small islands have lived, and continue to live, in their culturally diverse societies. Leading anthropologists, historians, economists, archaeologists and others provide information on the complexity and dynamics of societies in small island developing states. It reflects the outcomes of a UNESCO symposium held in the Seychelles in 2007.--Publisher's description.
Ancient Ocean Crossings
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Author : Stephen C. Jett
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2017-06-06
Ancient Ocean Crossings written by Stephen C. Jett and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with History categories.
Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.
In The Glow Of The Phantom Palace
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Author : Michael Jacobs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
In The Glow Of The Phantom Palace written by Michael Jacobs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Africa, West categories.
In this book, Michael Jacobs follows the trail of the Moors of Spain, exiled from their last kingdom of Granada in 1492. This extraordinary journey takes in ruins and discos in Andalucía, masseurs and literary lions in Morocco, before finishing in the mud mosques of Timbuktu, where families still keep the key to the house in Granada that they 500 years ago. On the way Jacobs conjures up a cast of irrepressibly alluring adulterers, louche fixers, kings, professors, poets, cobblers, and voyagers, in a kaleidoscope of fiction, history, journey, and imagination.