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Joyce E. Chaplin - Round About the Earth - 9781416596202 - V9781416596202
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Round About the Earth

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Description for Round About the Earth Paperback. Highly acclaimed, a witty, erudite, and colourful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet. Num Pages: 560 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTP; RGR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 686.
For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt. Starting with Ferdinand Magellan's dangerous voyage, Joyce Chaplin takes us on a trip of our own as we travel with Francis Drake, William Dampier, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and James Cook.

As sea travel grew much safer and passengers came on board, circumnavigation became a fad, as captured in Jules Verne's ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781416596202
SKU
V9781416596202
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Joyce E. Chaplin
Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of History at Harvard University. She is the author of four previous books of nonfiction, including The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Science and Technology Category), and winner of the Annibel Jenkins Prize of American Society ... Read more

Reviews for Round About the Earth
“A richly textured narrative. … Colorful adventures … fill the pages of this unconventional world history…Chaplin knows how to tell an absorbing story, weaving compelling reflections together with captivating vignettes. Augmented by first-person accounts, her prose can call to mind the late Samuel Eliot Morison, another Harvard historian whose dramatic narratives frequently unfolded at sea.”
Wall Street Journal
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