Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy
The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to...
EAN: 9781138019508
Geography of the Ocean
Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has...
EAN: 9781409421436
Forbidden Universe
The fascinating exploration of the Hermetic origins of modern science and the secret agenda...
EAN: 9781472124784
World and All the Things upon It
What if we saw indigenous people as the active agents of global exploration rather than as the...
EAN: 9780816699421
Yemen
When this book was first published in 1958, Arabia was even then one of the least known corners...
EAN: 9781138183193
Adventures in the Anthropocene
From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the...
EAN: 9780099572497
Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century
The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has made significant contributions to scholarship....
EAN: 9781848930704
Pacific
Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of...
EAN: 9780007550777
Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
EAN: 9781472435842
Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and...
EAN: 9780674088078
Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 6
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph...
EAN: 9781851968404
Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 5
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph...
EAN: 9781851968398
Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 4
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph...
EAN: 9781851968381
Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this...
EAN: 9781848932722
Quest for the Northwest Passage
These essays trace the history of the British search for the Northwest Passage – the Arctic sea...
EAN: 9781848932708
Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 8
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph...
EAN: 9781848933804
Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920
Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the...
EAN: 9781848934184
Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–1820, Volume 7
Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph...
EAN: 9781851966349
Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21
This book examines the little studied story of Bellinghausen, and includes the fullest biography...
EAN: 9780230363267
Europeans Abroad, 1450–1750
David Ringrose looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion—which highlights...
EAN: 9781442251762
Buried in the Arctic Ice
Tells the story of brave Arctic explorers who died in their attempts to seek the North-West...
EAN: 9781845889456
