Voyages that changed the world Peter Aughton

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aughton, Peter, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean travel--History.

Ocean travel.

Discoveries in geography--History.

Discoveries in geography.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Quercus, 2007.

Summary:

For all of the seafarers and explorers in this book their exploits would bring immortality for the parts they played in the voyages that changed the world.

Contents:

The early navigators

Saint Brendan's miraculous voyage

The Icelandic sagas of Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson

Madoc ab Owen Gwynedd's voyage across the Atlantic

The epic journeys of the Ming Dynasty

Henry the Navigator's colonization of Atlantic islands

The journeys of Bartholomew Dias and Vasco da Gama

America is discovered by Christopher Columbus

John Cabot's search for the North West Passage

Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the world

The French claim to Canada is secured by Jacques Cartier

Spanish treasure ships scour the Pacific

Francis Drake and the voyage of the Golden Hind

The quest for a route to the orient

The historic voyage of the Mayflower

Abel Tasman discovers Tasmania

The original Robinson Crusoe and the buccaneers of England

Roggeveen discovers Easter Island and Anson's fleet strikes gold

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville explores the Pacific's flora and fauna

Captain Cook's epic voyage on board the Endeavour

The transatlantic voyages of greed and despair

John Harrison and the search for longitude

The First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay

Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle

Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the race across the Atlantic

Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton travel to the ends of the Earth

Voyages under the sea.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781847240040

1847240046

9781847241467

1847241468

9781847242082

1847242081

OCLC:

156811096