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A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1
Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the Wager on a Desolate Island
Av John Bulkeley, John Cummins
Häftad, 2015
426 kr
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The tale of the ill-fated HMS Wager gripped the public's imagination, feeding its taste for dramatic accounts of survival against the odds. Part of George Anson's squadron that had been sent to harass Spanish ships in the Pacific, she was wrecked after rounding Cape Horn in 1741. The majority of …
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery
Häftad, 2010
636 kr
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William Desborough Cooley (1795-1883) was a geographer and historian, the author of a collection of influential texts on the development of geographical study, and a key founding member of the Hakluyt Society. First published as a complete set in 1831 as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet …
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery
Häftad, 2010
636 kr
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William Desborough Cooley (1795-1883) was a geographer and historian, the author of a collection of influential texts on the development of geographical study, and a key founding member of the Hakluyt Society. First published as a complete set in 1831 as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet …
The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery
Häftad, 2010
623 kr
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William Desborough Cooley (1795-1883) was a geographer and historian, the author of a collection of influential texts on the development of geographical study, and a key founding member of the Hakluyt Society. First published as a complete set in 1831 as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet …
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
Häftad, 2010
921 kr
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In the early nineteenth century, Australia remained largely uncharted, and doubt prevailed as to its unity as a continent. The 1801 expedition led by English mariner and cartographer Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), on board the Investigator, was groundbreaking in this respect. Flinders' charting of …
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
Häftad, 2010
1017 kr
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In the early nineteenth century, Australia remained largely uncharted, and doubt prevailed as to its unity as a continent. The 1801 expedition led by English mariner and cartographer Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), was groundbreaking in this respect. Flinders' charting of the Australian coastline …
A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War; Captain John Parker
Häftad, 2010
439 kr
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In 1791, Mary Ann Parker accompanied her husband, Captain John Parker, on a voyage to deliver supplies to New South Wales. A Voyage Round the World, in the Gorgon Man of War (1795) records their travels past the Cape of Good Hope to New South Wales and back, offering valuable insights into late …
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam'
Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
Häftad, 2010
803 kr
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Annie, Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Annie Brassey's …
The Progress of Maritime Discovery
From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Forming an Extensive System of Hydrography
Häftad, 2010
1312 kr
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James Stanier Clarke (c.1766-1834) was a chaplain and naval author. An associate of the Prince of Wales, Clarke was a naval chaplain before being appointed chaplain at Carlton House. He is best remembered for founding the Naval Chronicle with his colleague John McArthur, and published various …
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Av James Burney
Häftad, 2010
821 kr
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Captain James Burney (1750-1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second …
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Av James Burney
Häftad, 2010
1039 kr
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Captain James Burney (1750-1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second …
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Av James Burney
Häftad, 2010
921 kr
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Captain James Burney (1750-1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second …
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Av James Burney
Häftad, 2010
1005 kr
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Captain James Burney (1750-1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second …
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Av James Burney
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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Captain James Burney (1750-1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second …
In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties
14,000 Miles in the Sunbeam in 1883
Häftad, 2010
803 kr
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Anna, Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Anna Brassey's …
Sunshine and Storm in the East
Or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople
Häftad, 2010
705 kr
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Anna, Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Anna Brassey's …
The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam
Av Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome
Häftad, 2010
803 kr
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Anna, Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Anna Brassey's …
Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Samarang, during the Years 1843-46
Employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago
Häftad, 2011
705 kr
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Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) was a British naval officer who served as surveyor on several long voyages in the Atlantic and Pacific. Published in 1848, this two-volume account, interspersed with charts and illustrations, was the second of his journals to appear in print, and appealed to Victorian …
Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Samarang, during the Years 1843-46
Employed Surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) was a British naval officer who served as surveyor on several long voyages in the Atlantic and Pacific. Published in 1848, this two-volume account, interspersed with charts and illustrations, was the second of his journals to appear in print, and appealed to Victorian …
Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific
Including the Feejees and Others Inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in Her Majesty's Ship Havannah
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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John Elphinstone Erskine (1805-87) was a naval officer who served as a naval commander during the Crimean War, as well as patrolling the West Indies and the Mediterranean. He also wrote several well-received accounts of voyages around the Pacific. As a Liberal MP later in life, he was an outspoken …
Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, the Ladrone Islands, and the Philippines in the Years 1771-1772
Av Julien Marie Crozet, H. Ling Roth
Häftad, 2011
468 kr
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Published in 1891, Henry Roth's translation of Crozet's narrative provided the first English account of the infamous French expedition to the South Pacific. The ship left France in 1771 under the command of Marion De Fresne (1724-1772). After exploring Tasmania (the first Europeans to do so), De …
Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait
To Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28
Häftad, 2011
797 kr
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Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, was born into a family of artists, joined the Navy at a young age and went on to travel the world to survey coastlines and oceans. He published several accounts of his expeditions to destinations including the Arctic and Africa. …
Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly
During the Years 1842-1846
Häftad, 2011
705 kr
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Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) was a geologist who studied at St John's College, Cambridge under Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and, after many field expeditions in England, was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland in 1839. In 1841 he joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming expedition to …
Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly
During the Years 1842-1846
Häftad, 2011
623 kr
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Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) was a geologist who studied at St John's College, Cambridge under Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and, after many field expeditions in England, was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland in 1839. In 1841 he joined the H.M.S. Fly as a naturalist for an upcoming expedition to …
A Voyage round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe
Av comte de La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, L. A. Millet-Mureau
Häftad, 2011
984 kr
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Jean François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean, which ended in disaster when in 1788 the ships left Botany Bay in Australia on course for the islands of Oceania, and were never heard from again. …
A Voyage round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe
Av comte de La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, L. A. Millet-Mureau
Häftad, 2011
935 kr
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Jean François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean, which ended in disaster when in 1788 the ships left Botany Bay in Australia on course for the islands of Oceania, and were never heard from again. …
A Voyage round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769
Häftad, 2011
895 kr
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This is an English translation from 1772 of the famous Voyage Autour du Monde (1771) by Louis de Bougainville (1729-1811), French admiral and explorer. The contemporary fascination with global circumnavigation created demand for this translation by John Reinhold Forster (1729-98), which includes …
Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World
On Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethnic Philosophy
Häftad, 2011
1039 kr
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John Reinhold Forster (1729-98), a scientific writer and translator of German origin, took part in Cook's second Pacific voyage, from 1772 to 1775, and published this study, which records his examinations of 'nature in its greatest extent; the earth, the sea, the air, the organic and animated …
Histoire générale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyriès et A. Jacobs
Av Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
720 kr
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This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the adventures and discoveries of recent French explorers. In Volumes 1 and 2 the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) presents a lightly fictionalised account based on his …
Histoire générale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyriès et A. Jacobs
Av Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the adventures and discoveries of recent French explorers. In Volumes 1 and 2 the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) presents a lightly fictionalised account based on his …
