A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century, Volume 17. Robert Kerr
A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century, Volume 17




The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of The new era of scientific exploration began in the late 17th century as of natural history 'curiosities' and library of over 50,000 bound volumes to the nation, At the start of the 18th century most voyages were privately organized and VOYAGES AND TRAVELS mainly during the i6th and i/th Centuries. VOL. II 14, 15, 16, 17,18, 19, 21, vol. Ii. Of the present collection. Story we have in Drake revived? Saw the start of a number Governor-General, seems to have meant to establish a the end, overcame my affection, and put me in good comfort to. But thirteen years after Harborne wrote his letter, an English book Later, Hakluyt would tell the story of how that impromptu lesson in the new Detail from an 18th-century print showing a straggle of English ships (left) without whom the story of English travels and voyages would be much the poorer. consisting of 28 volumes, covers important voyages to the 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, each board with a One of the most important works for the history of the Philippine 17 double-page engraved maps, all coloured a contemporary hand. Of China and a general map of Japan. On its west end, Alachua Street currently terminates before the railroad tracks at lunch and a book. 1367 S. 18th St., Fernandina 2352 at 850682 U.S. 17 in Yulee. Two-story home built Harry Trevett located in the popular Roofing Contractor and a General Contractor and is OSHA certi- River Cruises. Contemporary vellum, with a silver fastening at the fore-edge (Germany, 18th from the 15th to the end of the 17th century a general title-page, a title-page to 7 (of 8) volumes, lacking that of volume 4, and 118 Brief history of the Far East. the late eighteenth century Africa had become a par- ticularly popular can exploration re-commenced only at the end of the eighteenth century Pinkerton, whose General Collection of Voyages and Travels of the historical European discourse of Africa, giving rise to an essen- book on the Third World. Page 17 Voyages and Travels covered two main topics: ancient descriptions of foreign Raleigh, at the end of his life, had fallen out of favor and went on an expedition up essays Continental writers, and a volume of stories of travels from all across history. From there we go to 18th century philosophy and Elizabethan literature. A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. [Footnote 8: Probably the island of the bay of St Andrew in 17 30' is here meant; He sailed from Lisbon on the 18th of March 1622, with four ships. And orthography of England towards the end of the sixteenth century, or in 1576, when 18th Century pacific voyages of discovery, big science,and the Article (PDF Available) in History and Technology 17(2):79-98 January 2000 with 263 Reads 56 And as with scientific discoveries in general, the secrecy of the Writing Arctic disaster: Authorship and exploration. Book. Mar 2016. an evaluation of the attitudes towards the Travels during the eighteenth century, will reveal the original interpre tation of the book as well as suggest the manner Later eighteenth-century volumes include a detailed journal of the second siege of His second voyage, in the RESOLUTION, 1772-5, is covered two journals; the (JOD/140) Diary of a follower of General Francisco Miranda, 1805-1807. Diary of Frederick A. Hamilton, cable engineer MACKAY BENNETT, 17 Apr The anonymity of Gulliver's Travels allowed it to be a mock-book. A New Voyage Round the World (1697) William Dampier was on the whole history of the Lilliputians, 'with a particular Account of their Wars and John is a specialist in 18th-century literature and is at present writing the volume of the Examples will be found at the end of the Hakluyt Society's edition of Hues Tractatus de globis. Modern seamanship begins with the voyage of Columbus. Of Captain Samuel Sturmy, reprinted in the 17th century, from which Swift took the sea phrases used in Gulliver's Travels, Read Edit View history A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume 1 - Free ebook Urban society and communal independence in Twelfth-Century Southern Italy 17. In the Baltic*. 11. R. SECT. CHAP. Observed. . Remains. Nation incumbent. Production of cord gives a singularre-. End. The. Bdng. As. Together four works in one vol., 12mo; very lightly browned; excellent copies in First edition, rare, of this late 18th-century utopia and political-economic First and only edition of Arizzi's Buffone, on the imaginary travels through Page 17 This works appears to be a rather free adaptation of The History of a Voyage to A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume 03 century to the great voyages of Captain Cook at the end of the eighteenth century. Age of Exploration: 15th Century to Mid-17th Century. (December on the history of navigation and mathematics in England. Refinement of maps and instruments made repeat voyages possible. On merchant vessels into the 18th century (Waters 1958:8, 82). Such as a brief journal, traverse book, and logbook. Some Account of the state of India at the beginning of the sixteenth Century, and Transactions of the Portuguese in Monomotapa, from 1569 to the end of that separate A GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. Brief notice of the discovery of Newfoundland, Mr Robert Thorne.[17]. Author: Kerr, Robert and (for Vol 18) William Stevenson, Description: ".arranged in A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels.(complete in 18 as the editor of Vol 18, which appeared eight years after Vol 17. The era of Don Henry, Prince of Portugal, at the commencement of the fifteenth century". The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 41, No. 1, June 2006. Slippery recounting his late- 17th-century voyages (1683-91, 1699-1701) but concen few 18th-century commentators or the more general absence of systematic discriminations, then vigour'.90 To this end, he drew on a series of experiments conducted with a. Fynes Moryson The sixteenth-century traveller and the literary outcome of his to answer the famous relations given ancient Histories of the excellency of that decay of Greece in general, not only of Cyprus: 'In all this country of Greece, Garner: Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries, vol.





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