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Tracks On The Ocean

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Author : Sara Caputo
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2024-08-29

Tracks On The Ocean written by Sara Caputo and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.

'Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of 1492 'Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply erudite and constantly mind-expanding' Philip Ball, author of How Life Works From their first appearance on Renaissance maps, linear tracks representing maritime voyages have shaped the way we see the world. But why do we depict journeys as lines, and what is their deeper meaning? Ferdinand Magellan's route to the Pacific embodied the promise of adventure and colonisation, while the scientific charts of the Royal Navy inspired others to plan conquests, navigate treacherous waters and establish settlements across the oceans. In Tracks on the Ocean, prize-winning historian Sara Caputo charts a hidden history of the modern world through the tracks left on maps and the sea. Taking us from ancient Greek itineraries to twenty-first-century digital mapping, via the voyages of Drake and Cook, the decks of Napoleonic warships and the boiler rooms of ocean liners, Caputo reveals how marks on maps have changed the course of modernity.

Tracks On The Ocean

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Author : Sara Caputo
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-10-22

Tracks On The Ocean written by Sara Caputo 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 2024-10-22 with History categories.

An engaging look at ocean routes’ complicated beginnings and elusive impact. Sara Caputo’s Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood routes of travel over the ocean and how we came to represent that movement as a cartographical line. Focusing on the representation of sea journeys in the Western world from the early sixteenth century to the present, Caputo deftly argues that the depiction of these lines is inextricable from European imperialism, the rise of modernity, and attempts at mastery over nature. Caputo recounts the history of ocean tracks through an array of lively stories and characters, from the expeditions of Captain James Cook in the eighteenth century to tracks depicted in Moby Dick and popular culture of the nineteenth century to the use of navigational techniques by the British navy. She discusses how tracks evolved from tools of surveying into tools of surveillance and, eventually, into paths of environmental calamity. The impulse to record tracks on the ocean is, Caputo argues, reflective of an ongoing desire for order, schematization, and personal visibility, as well as occupation and permanent ownership—in this case over something that is unoccupiable and impossible to truly possess. Both beautifully written and deeply researched, Tracks on the Ocean shares how the lines drawn on maps tell the audacious and often tragic and violent stories of ocean voyages.

Paths On The Ocean

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Author : DR SARA. CAPUTO
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-08-29

Paths On The Ocean written by DR SARA. CAPUTO and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-29 with categories.

Tracks In The Sea

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Author : Chester G. Hearn
language : en
Publisher: International Marine Publishing Company
Release Date : 2002

Tracks In The Sea written by Chester G. Hearn and has been published by International Marine Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

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Storm Track Fog And Ice Charts Of The North Atlantic Ocean And Hurricane Track Charts Of The Gulf Of Mexico

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Author : John P. Finley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

Storm Track Fog And Ice Charts Of The North Atlantic Ocean And Hurricane Track Charts Of The Gulf Of Mexico written by John P. Finley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with categories.

Envpredrschfac Technical Paper

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Author : Environmental Prediction Research Facility (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

Envpredrschfac Technical Paper written by Environmental Prediction Research Facility (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Climatology categories.

Selected Iioe Track Charts

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Author : National Oceanographic Data Center (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966

Selected Iioe Track Charts written by National Oceanographic Data Center (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Indian Ocean categories.

Water Worlds Human Geographies Of The Ocean

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Author : Kimberley Peters
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-11

Water Worlds Human Geographies Of The Ocean written by Kimberley Peters and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with Social Science categories.

Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human), this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life. This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized, theorized and ’known’ through metaphors, voyages of discovery and scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are experienced; through various activities including driving on water, kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa

Ocean Power

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Author : Ofelia Zepeda
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1995-03

Ocean Power written by Ofelia Zepeda and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03 with Poetry categories.

The annual seasons and rhythms of the desert are a dance of clouds, wind, rain, and flood—water in it roles from bringer of food to destroyer of life. The critical importance of weather and climate to native desert peoples is reflected with grace and power in this personal collection of poems, the first written creative work by an individual in O'odham and a landmark in Native American literature. Poet Ofelia Zepeda centers these poems on her own experiences growing up in a Tohono O'odham family, where desert climate profoundly influenced daily life, and on her perceptions as a contemporary Tohono O'odham woman. One section of poems deals with contemporary life, personal history, and the meeting of old and new ways. Another section deals with winter and human responses to light and air. The final group of poems focuses on the nature of women, the ocean, and the way the past relationship of the O'odham with the ocean may still inform present day experience. These fine poems will give the outside reader a rich insight into the daily life of the Tohono O'odham people.

Nuclear Tracks In Solids

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Author : Robert L. Fleischer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2024-03-29

Nuclear Tracks In Solids written by Robert L. Fleischer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-29 with Science categories.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.