Geographical discovery & exploration
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Geographical discovery & exploration
Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus' own writings - chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English - to relate his self-perception and personal history, as far as is possible, in his own words. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841344
- ISBN
- 9781603841344
Condition: New
€ 53.28€ 42.14
€ 53.28
€ 42.14
Hardcover. The first colonial cartographer of New Mexico, he helped create the culturally unique santero tradition that still thrives today. Editor(s): Diaz, Josef. Num Pages: 156 pages, 61 colour & 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AGB; BGF; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 984.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780890135853
- ISBN
- 9780890135853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.35
€ 47.99
€ 34.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJQ; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772030204
- ISBN
- 9781772030204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1MTN; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 206 x 13. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894759380
- ISBN
- 9781894759380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.12
€ 25.99
€ 18.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGA; JFSJ1; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press Canada
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894759632
- ISBN
- 9781894759632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 15.75
€ 19.00
€ 15.75
paperback. In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series of letters relating to Cartier and the Sieur de Roberval, who was in command of cartier on the last voyage. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English. Editor(s): Cook, Ramsay. Num Pages: 177 pages, Illustrations, 1 facsim., maps, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLH; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Nachdruck
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802060006
- ISBN
- 9780802060006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
hardcover. This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. Editor from University of Otago, New Zealand. Editor(s): Ballantyne, Tony. Series Editor(s): Flynn, Professor Dennis O.; Giraldez, Professor Arturo. Series: The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900. Num Pages: 394 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1QSP; PDX; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 169. Weight in Grams: 869.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754635628
- ISBN
- 9780754635628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 236.32
€ 236.32
paperback. Illustrator(s): Jacques, Francis Lee. Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 1KBCO; HBJK; RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816609192
- ISBN
- 9780816609192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BGA; HBJK; RGR; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816643943
- ISBN
- 9780816643943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.47
€ 17.99
€ 17.47
hardcover. Argues that Fremont used both a radical form of the picturesque and an imaginary map to create an aesthetic craving for expansion Num Pages: 1 photograph, 23 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; JFC; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bison Books United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803238077
- ISBN
- 9780803238077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.84
€ 32.99
€ 28.84
paperback. This is a factual account, written with the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters - the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Num Pages: 287 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBTM; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807842614
- ISBN
- 9780807842614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.69
€ 25.99
€ 23.69
The Lewis and Clark Journals. An American Epic of Discovery.
Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William; Members Of...
Paperback. Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This title combines the narrative highlights of the Lewis and Clark journals. It explains their triumphs and terrors. Editor(s): Moulton, Gary E. Num Pages: 497 pages, 6 illustrations, 13 maps, index. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 497
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803280397
- ISBN
- 9780803280397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.68
€ 26.99
€ 25.68
Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of Am...
Edited By Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantma...
Hardcover. Across the Continent is an examination of Lewis and Clark's expedition. Essays look at the global politics that provided the context for the expedition and at the interest in science that grew from it and justified its undertaking. It considers the legacies of it on Native Americans and the control of the expansion of the American Empire. Editor(s): Seefeldt, Douglas; Hantman, Jeffrey L.; Onuf, Peter S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; JPSL; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press Charlottesville
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923130
- ISBN
- 9780813923130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.85
€ 54.85
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803251380
- ISBN
- 9780803251380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.63
€ 23.99
€ 22.63
Paperback. Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTB; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802080462
- ISBN
- 9780802080462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.73
€ 44.99
€ 39.73
Hardcover. Num Pages: 268 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KJP; 3JB; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780939923847
- ISBN
- 9780939923847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 31.58
€ 47.99
€ 31.58
Hardback. Series: Hakluyt Society, Extra Series. Num Pages: Includes 20 maps and 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; BJ; HBLL; HBTM; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 978
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472453235
- ISBN
- 9781472453235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 238.12
€ 238.12
paperback. An 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival.. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; BGH; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780553815399
- ISBN
- 9780553815399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.64
€ 16.99
€ 11.64
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark. Herbarium.
Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William. Ed(S): Mou...
Paperback. Contains the listing and presentation of the plant specimens collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. This volume presents 239 items and is aimed to assist researchers and enthusiasts hoping to identify each plant's date and place of collection and other information such as plant habitat and ethnobotanical use. Editor(s): Moulton, Gary E. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illus., Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; PST; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1021.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803280328
- ISBN
- 9780803280328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.08
€ 42.99
€ 39.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QMP; HBJQ; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486477329
- ISBN
- 9780486477329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.57
€ 20.57