The Circumnavigators

The Circumnavigators
Author: Don Holm
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1975
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Round About the Earth

Round About the Earth
Author: Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1416596208

Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

The First Circumnavigators

The First Circumnavigators
Author: Harry Kelsey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300217781

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial trans global voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey's enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in European and American archives, offers fascinating stories of treachery, greed, murder, desertion, sickness, and starvation but also of courage, dogged persistence, leadership, and loyalty.

The Circumnavigators

The Circumnavigators
Author: Derek Wilson
Publisher: Constable Limited
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Himalaya Memories

Himalaya Memories
Author: Michael Puldy
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578838984

Highlights multiple treks throughout Bhutan and Nepal during 2012 and 2013. This limited edition photograph book includes photographs and text detailing the spiritual, environmental beauty, and amazing landscapes of the Himalayas.

Modernist Circumnavigations

Modernist Circumnavigations
Author: Kevin Riordan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030962415

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne’s itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne’s story. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150th anniversary of Verne’s novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture and on the field of global modernism.