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  • America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World

    by John Ogilby ...
    The Sea, that takes several Denominations from the Countreys which it washeth, and surrounding the dry Land, cuts out, and shapes so many winding Bays, Creeks, and Meandring Inlets, seems no where so much confin’d and penn’d into so narrow a Channel, as the Straights of Magellan: From whence again, soon expatiating, it spreads it self into two immense, and almost boundless Oceans, that which opens ... Read more

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  • America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World

    Enriched edition. Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither

    In "America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World," John Ogilby presents a meticulously detailed account of the Americas, drawing upon the latest cartographic and ethnographic research of the 17th century. Displaying a blend of vivid prose and scholarly inquiry, Ogilby combines descriptive geography with engaging narratives, offering readers insights into the culture, ... Read more

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  • The Lusiads

    First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation.At the centre of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. The first European artist to cross the equator, Camoes's narrative reflects the novelty and fascination of that ... Read more

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  • The Buccaneers of America

    Alexander Exquemelin, whose probable French origins remain unclear, was most certainly on board the ship of the infamous pirate captain, Henry Morgan, during his raid on Panama City in 1671. His association with the buccaneers began around 1669, when he was sold from his indentured servitude with the French West India Company to a barber-surgeon, who taught him the trade. His subsequent years as a ... Read more

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  • Voyages and Discoveries

    Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation describes, in the words of the explorers ... Read more

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  • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolome de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.Bartolome de las Casas (circa 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican ... Read more

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  • Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 56 - Delphi Poets Series
    Elizabethan poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh’s poetry is renowned for its straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style, resisting the elaborate poetic devices of Italian poetry. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Raleigh’s complete poetical works, with beautiful ... Read more

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  • El Cid - The Greatest Epic of Spanish Literature

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    The legend of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar also known as El Cid is a huge part of the Spanish psyche and the epic tale of his victories against the moors is the subject of the oldest extant Spanish epic poem. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high ... Read more

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  • Harvard Classics Volume 33

    Voyages And Travels

    Series Book 33 - Harvard Classics
    Contents: 1. An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus 2. Germany, by Tacitus 3. Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols 4. Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty 5. Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges 6. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies 7. The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh Also available: The ... Read more

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  • Drake's Great Armada

    by Walter Bigges ...
    Nearly five years elapsed between Drake's return from his Famous Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament commemorated in the following pages. During the last of these years the march of events had been remarkably rapid. Gilbert, who had been empowered by Elizabeth, in the year of Frobisher's last expedition, to found colonies in America, had sailed for that purpose to Newfoundland (1583 ... Read more

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  • The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. HON. LIBRARIAN TO THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY, ... Read more

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  • Great Epochs in American History (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Voyages of Discovery; Early Explorations & Planting of the First Colonies (1000 A.D.–1733)

    Great Epochs in American History (Vol. 1&2) gathers a sequence of historical narratives tracing the earliest phases of the American story: European discovery, exploration, encounter, and the first durable colonial experiments. Composed in the elevated, documentary style characteristic of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical anthologies, the volumes combine eyewitness testimony, ... Read more

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