Ships Of Discovery And Exploration

Ships Of Discovery And Exploration PDF Author: Lincoln P. Paine
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547561636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Lincoln P. Paine's SHIPS OF THE WORLD: AN HISTORICAL HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA was honored as one of the best reference books of the year by the New York Public Library, and Library Journal described it as "clearly the most fascinating book of the year." Now, in two equally fascinating new books, Paine focuses on two of the most interesting areas of maritime history: WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD TO 1900 and SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION. SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION tells the stories of 125 vessels that have played important roles in voyages of geographical exploration and scientific discovery, from early Polynesian double canoes to the most technically sophisticated submersibles. Each ship is described in a vivid short essay that captures its personality as well as its physical characteristics, construction, and history. Drawings, paintings, and photographs show the grandeur and grace of these oceangoing vessels, maps help the reader follow the routes of great seafarers and naval campaigns, and chronologies offer a perspective on underwater archaeology sites, maritime technology, exploration, and disasters at sea.

The Discovery of the Titanic

The Discovery of the Titanic PDF Author: Robert D. Ballard
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Warner Books
ISBN: 9780446513852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Highlights the first-hand account of the exploration of the Titanic shipwreck

Lost Ships

Lost Ships PDF Author: Mensun Bound
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780684852515
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This lavishly illustrated volume documents the stories behind the most fascinating and historically significant shipwrecks of all time, brought to life by a world-class maritime archaeologist. 250 illustrations, many in color.

Vanguard of Empire

Vanguard of Empire PDF Author: Roger Craig Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
In this book, Smith has assembled a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. He focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farther, carrying larger and larger cargoes. Pilots developed new methods of celestial navigation and learned the patterns of wind and sea currents. Long voyages taxed the physical and emotional well-being of the crew, requiring new methods of supply and sustenance. In addition to covering these developments, Smith's book shows how ships were built, outfitted, and manned, illustrating what life at sea was like in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Focusing on the advances in maritime technology that made European expansion possible, this book will shed light on a neglected aspect of the European conquest of the New World.

Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery, 1415-1800

Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery, 1415-1800 PDF Author: Ronald S. Love
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 0313320438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of essays that examine developments in maritime exploration from 1415 to 1800, discussing the impact those developments had on what people knew about the world and how it was explored.

Ships, Seas, and Scientists

Ships, Seas, and Scientists PDF Author: Vincent Ponko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Includes chapters on Wilkes expedition to Antarctica, 1838-42, U.S. expeditions in search of Franklin, 1850-55, and expeditions in North Pacific and Bering Strait, 1852-63.

The Voyages of the Discovery

The Voyages of the Discovery PDF Author: Ann Savours
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848327021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Discovery was built for Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition of 1901-04 and was launched more than 100 years ago in 1901, at Dundee. She had a long and intriguing career before her final voyage back there in 1986; this book tells the story of that chequered history. Despite a number of expeditions to the Southern Ocean during the nineteenth century, the continent of Antarctica remained mostly a mystery by the turn of the twentieth. To remedy this the Royal Geographical Society proposed a National Antarctic Expedition, and a purpose-built vessel, the Discovery, was designed. Based on a whale ship, she was massively built to withstand ice, and was equipped with a hoisting propeller and rudder. Sh set sail from Cowes of 6 August and six months later was in the Ross Sea. The southern sledging expedition, of Scott, Shackleton and Wilson, reached within 500 miles of the South Pole. In 1905, a year after her return to Britain, she was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company and worked as a simple cargo carrier between London and their trading posts in the Canadian Arctic. Later she was sent to rescue Shackleton's men on Elephant Island. In 1925 she became a research ship, and in 1929-31 she was used to survey what became Australian Antarctic territory. Moored on the Thames Embankment, she survived the London blitz before returning to Dundee where she is now on permanent display.

Sea of Glory

Sea of Glory PDF Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142004838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508

Book Description
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
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