by Tyr | Apr 27, 2021 | Travel Exploration
Human kind has always been characterized by curiosity, and throughout history its most courageous and adventurous members have never hesitated to embark on journeys into the great unknown lying beyond the horizon. At times, such journeys would have a disastrous end,...
by Tyr | Apr 27, 2021 | Travel Exploration
An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour...
by Tyr | Apr 27, 2021 | Travel Exploration
Charles DARWIN; Robert Fitzroy; Philip Parker King Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe (1839) As the title...
by Tyr | Apr 27, 2021 | Travel Exploration
Arguably the most famous travel book of all time, The Travels of Marco Polo might not even come to be were it not for Rustichello da Pisa, a romance writer and Polo’s cellmate during their imprisonment in Genoa after their fellow Venetians suffered a defeat in a naval...
by Tyr | Apr 27, 2021 | Travel Exploration
BEHR, Johann von der Diarium, oder Tage-Buch über dasjenige, so sich Zeit einer neun-järigen Reise zu Wasser und Lande, meistentheils in Dienst der Vereinigten Geoctroyrten Niederländischen Ost-Indianischen Compagnie, besonders in denselbigen Ländern täglich begeben...
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