Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 857
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"In Northern Mists" is one of the best-known works by a Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. This carefully crafted DigiCat ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Volume 1: Antiquity, Before Pytheas Pytheas of Massalia: the Voyage to Thule Antiquity, After Pytheas The Early Middle Ages The Awakening of Mediæval Knowledge of the North Finns, Skridfinns (Lapps), and the First Settlement of Scandinavia The Voyages of the Norsemen: Discovery of Iceland and Greenland Voyages to the Uninhabited Parts of Greenland in the Middle Ages Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America... Volume 2: Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America Eskimo and Skræling The Decline of the Norse Settlements in Greenland Expeditions of the Norwegians to the White Sea, Voyages in the Polar Sea, Whaling and Sealing The North in Maps and Geographical Works of the Middle Ages John Cabot and the English Discovery of North America The Portuguese Discoveries in the North-West...
Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108071694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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Translated from Norwegian and published in 1911, this two-volume work traces Arctic exploration from antiquity to the sixteenth century.
Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730993054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1069
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From Nansen's Introduction This book owes its existence in the first instance to a rash promise made some years ago to my friend Dr. J. Scott Keltie, of London, that I would try, when time permitted, to contribute a volume on the history of arctic voyages to his series of books on geographical exploration. The subject was an attractive one; I thought I was fairly familiar with it, and did not expect the book to take a very long time when once I made a start with it. On account of other studies it was a long while before I could do this; but when at last I seriously took the work in hand, the subject in return monopolised my whole powers. It appeared to me that the natural foundation for a history of arctic voyages was in the first place to make clear the main features in the development of knowledge of the North in early times. By tracing how ideas of the Northern World, appearing first in a dim twilight, change from age to age, how the old myths and creations of the imagination are constantly recurring, sometimes in new shapes, and how new ones are added to them, we have a curious insight into the working of the human mind in its endeavour to subject to itself the world and the universe. A word from this editor: This book can hardly compare to getting the original hardback which by now is a rare book - the wealth of maps and illustrations Nansen placed in his 2 volume work covers a breath of history and makes for a wonderful printed work of timeless value - the poor substitutes we have placed here attempt to touch on this but if you can find the original you should get it.
Author: E. Keble Chatterton
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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'Ships & Ways of Other Days' is a fascinating journey through the history of seafaring, from the earliest recorded times to the present day. E. Keble Chatterton traces the evolution of the ship and its rigging, and explores the challenges and triumphs of building, launching, and equipping vessels in different eras. He takes us on board with sailors as they set sail on long voyages to wage war, discover new lands, and open up trade routes. We witness how they navigated the high seas without the technology we take for granted today and fought against other ships and pirates. This book is an extraordinary study of seamanship, navigation, and naval strategy that will transport readers back in time.
Author: Carl Ortwin Sauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520332245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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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 1968.
Author: James Robert Enterline
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 0801875471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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This revealing analysis of Medieval cartography and native American travel upends conventional narratives about discovering the New World. For generations, American schools have taught children that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. But evidence shows that Leif Erikson set foot on the continent centuries earlier. As debate continues over which explorer deserves the credit, early maps of North America suggest that we may be asking the wrong questions. How did medieval Europeans have such specific geographic knowledge of North America, a land even their most daring adventurers had not yet discovered? In Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus, James Robert Enterline presents new evidence that traces this knowledge to the cartographic skills of indigenous people of the high Arctic, who, he contends, provided the basis for medieval maps of large parts of North America. Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe’s discovery of the New World.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Author: Charles Wendell Townsend
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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