Practical navigation, or An introduction to the whole art, containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems ... All carefully corrected with many useful additions

Practical navigation, or An introduction to the whole art, containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems ... All carefully corrected with many useful additions
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Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0024330144
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Synopsis Practical navigation, or An introduction to the whole art, containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems ... All carefully corrected with many useful additions by : John SELLER (Hydrographer)

A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Practical Navigation; Containing the Elements of Plain Trigonometry, and It's Application to Plain, Mercator's and Middle-latitude Sailing. ... By William Jones

A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Practical Navigation; Containing the Elements of Plain Trigonometry, and It's Application to Plain, Mercator's and Middle-latitude Sailing. ... By William Jones
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Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:N11734005
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Synopsis A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Practical Navigation; Containing the Elements of Plain Trigonometry, and It's Application to Plain, Mercator's and Middle-latitude Sailing. ... By William Jones by : William Jones

The Mariner's Compass Rectified

The Mariner's Compass Rectified
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Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015048418589
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Synopsis The Mariner's Compass Rectified by : Andrew Wakely

The Novel and the Sea

The Novel and the Sea
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781400836482
ISBN-13 : 1400836484
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Novel and the Sea by : Margaret Cohen

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Margaret Cohen moors the novel to overseas exploration and work at sea, framing its emergence as a transatlantic history, steeped in the adventures and risks of the maritime frontier. Cohen explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. Cohen shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime. A significant literary history, The Novel and the Sea challenges readers to rethink their land-locked assumptions about the novel.

The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671

The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 969
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ISBN-10 : 9781351168540
ISBN-13 : 1351168541
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Synopsis The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his Majesty's Ship Sweepstakes, 1669-1671 by : Richard J. Campbell

In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript ‘Booke’, which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subsequently entered his journals of his voyages and correspondence relating to them. The ‘Booke’ contains his own fair copy of the journal of his voyage through the Strait of Magellan and north to Valdivia in the Sweepstakes, 1669-1671. This is published here for the first time, together with an incomplete and somewhat different copy of the journal, held in the Bodleian Library, which was made for him by a clerk after he returned to England, and which was partially published in 1694. Both versions of the journal together with previously unpublished records made by members of his company, as well as reproductions of the charts which Narbrough relied on and those he produced, are printed here. Narbrough's mission was to carry out a passenger who referred to himself as Don Carlos Enriques and who claimed to have expert knowledge of Peru and Chile, and contacts with disaffected colonists and indigenous peoples. Don Carlos's written proposals to King Charles II and his ministers, only recently discovered, are here translated from Spanish, and give a clear sense of the character, if not the real identity, of an adventurer, who gave the authorities in England, Chile and Peru totally different and changing stories about his status and the purpose of the voyage. Narbrough's conduct of the voyage has been criticized by later authors who have focussed on his inability recover four of his ship’s company from detention in Valdivia and the lack of tangible results, in the form of trade or contacts with indigenous groups. The more complete story provided here shows that Narbrough carried out his ambiguous orders to the letter. His chart of the Strait of Magellan remained the principal chart of the area for the next century. King Charles II and James, Duke of York, both recognized his abilities. He was rapidly re-employed in naval service, subsequently knighted, and rose to become a Commissioner of the Navy and Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean.

Bibliotheca Hulsiana seu Apparatus copiosus et exquisitus librorum, omnis generis ... quos ... collegit vir consularis Sam: van Huls ... qui publica auctione distrahebuntur mense Aprili anni 1730. Hagæ-Comitis per Joannem Swart & Petrum de Hondt

Bibliotheca Hulsiana seu Apparatus copiosus et exquisitus librorum, omnis generis ... quos ... collegit vir consularis Sam: van Huls ... qui publica auctione distrahebuntur mense Aprili anni 1730. Hagæ-Comitis per Joannem Swart & Petrum de Hondt
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Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : KBNL:KBNLB810027950
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Synopsis Bibliotheca Hulsiana seu Apparatus copiosus et exquisitus librorum, omnis generis ... quos ... collegit vir consularis Sam: van Huls ... qui publica auctione distrahebuntur mense Aprili anni 1730. Hagæ-Comitis per Joannem Swart & Petrum de Hondt by :