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Lines in the ice : exploring the roof of the world
\"The 2014 discovery of the HMS Erebus--a ship lost during Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage--reignited popular, economic, and political interest in the Arctic's exploration, history, anthropology, and historical geography. Lines in the Ice investigates the allure of the North through topographical views, maps, explorers' diaries, and historic photographs.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jolliet and Marquette
Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in
fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed
everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial
machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original
research to place the explorers and their journey within
seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among
the region's diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished
natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna.
Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the
French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and
missionaries who created the political and religious environment
that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization
of the heartland.
A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and
Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal
event in American history.
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Ancient ocean crossings : reconsidering the case for contacts with the pre-Columbian Americas
In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth's two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.
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The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
A truly continental history in both its geographic and political
scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire,
1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving
North America and links geographic ignorance about the American
West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from
scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp
demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western
regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is
crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of
the Seven Years' War.
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Antarctic Pioneer
Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed forever after marrying rugged Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne. She participated in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition 1946-1948. Jackie Ronne dedicated her life to Antarctica and helped shape the narrative of twentieth-century Antarctic exploration.
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Navigations
Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in map-making and ship design. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews and the intercontinental spread of plants and animals gave these voyages long-term global significance. The voyages of discovery are narrated within the context of Portuguese politics, and this book describes the role of the Portuguese ruling dynasty – including its female members – in the flowering of the Portuguese Renaissance and the distinctive ideology of the Renaissance state, and in the cultural changes that took place within a wider European context.
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Two Years below the Horn
In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation's first commander to resign, Taylor- a military engineer with extensive prewar surveying experience-became the first and only Canadian to lead an Antarctic expedition. As Commander of the operation, Taylor oversaw construction of the first permanent base on the Antarctic continent at Hope Bay. From there, he led four-man teams on two epic sledging journeys around James Ross Island, overcoming arduous conditions and correcting cartographic mistakes made by previous explorers. The editors' detailed afterword draws on Taylor's extensive personal papers to highlight Taylor's achievements and document his significant contributions to polar science.This book will appeal to readers interested in history of polar exploration, science and sovereignty. It also sheds light on the little-known contribution of a Canadian to a distant theatre of the Second World War. The wartime service of Major Taylor reveals important new details about a groundbreaking operation that laid the foundation for the British Antarctic Survey and marked a critical moment in the transition from the heroic to the modern scientific era in polar exploration.
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