Round The World

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Our New Way Round The World

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Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

Our New Way Round The World written by Charles Carleton Coffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Geography categories.

A Run Round The World Or The Adventures Of Three Young Americans

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Author : Henry Lyell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

A Run Round The World Or The Adventures Of Three Young Americans written by Henry Lyell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Voyages and travels categories.

A Climatologist S Round The World Voyage

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Author : Robert DeCourcy Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929

A Climatologist S Round The World Voyage written by Robert DeCourcy Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.

Around The World In Eighty Days

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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 1999-03-25

Around The World In Eighty Days written by Jules Verne and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-25 with Fiction categories.

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time.

Round About The Earth

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Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-10-30

Round About The Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with History categories.

In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet. For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five ships and 270 men, but only one ship and thirty-five men returned, not including Magellan, who died in the Philippines. Starting with these dangerous voyages, Joyce Chaplin takes us on a trip of our own as we travel with Francis Drake, William Dampier, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and James Cook. Eventually sea travel grew much safer and passengers came on board. The most famous was Charles Darwin, but some intrepid women became circumnavigators too—a Lady Brassey, for example. Circumnavigation became a fad, as captured in Jules Verne’s classic novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Once continental railroads were built, circumnavigators could traverse sea and land. Newspapers sponsored racing contests, and people sought ways to distinguish themselves—by bicycling around the world, for instance, or by sailing solo. Steamships turned round-the-world travel into a luxurious experience, as with the tours of Thomas Cook & Son. Famous authors wrote up their adventures, including Mark Twain and Jack London and Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (better known as Nellie Bly). Finally humans took to the skies to circle the globe in airplanes. Not much later, Sputnik, Gagarin, and Glenn pioneered a new kind of circumnavigation— in orbit. Through it all, the desire to take on the planet has tested the courage and capacity of the bold men and women who took up the challenge. Their exploits show us why we think of the Earth as home. Round About the Earth is itself a thrilling adventure.

Weird Sports And Wacky Games Around The World

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Author : Victoria R. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-04-28

Weird Sports And Wacky Games Around The World written by Victoria R. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.

With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience. Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe. Spanning subjects that include individual games, team sports, games for men and women, and contests involving animal competitors, there is something for every reader. Whether researching a particular country or region's traditions or wanting an interesting read for pleasure, this book offers an array of uses and benefits. Though the book focuses on games and sporting activities, the examination of these topics gives readers insight into unfamiliar places and peoples through their recreation—an essential part of the human experience that occurs in all cultures. Such activities are not only embedded in everyday life but also indelibly interconnected with social customs, war, politics, commerce, education, and national identity, making the whimsical topic of the book an appealing gateway to insightful, highly relevant information.

Small Boats And Daring Men

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Author : Benjamin Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-04-18

Small Boats And Daring Men written by Benjamin Armstrong and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-18 with History categories.

Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era’s conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work—with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors’ memoirs and diaries, and officers’ correspondence—is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century.

A Trip Around The World

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Author : Timothy Coop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

A Trip Around The World written by Timothy Coop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Australia categories.

Catalogue Of Books In The Mercantile Library Of The City Of New York

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Author : Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866

Catalogue Of Books In The Mercantile Library Of The City Of New York written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Libraries categories.

Lexical Priming

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Author : Michael Hoey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12

Lexical Priming written by Michael Hoey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Foreign Language Study categories.

Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the definitions given to them in dictionaries but instead interact with other words in common patterns of use. Using concrete statistical evidence from a corpus of newspaper English, but also referring to travel writing and literary text, the author argues that words are 'primed' for use through our experience with them, so that everything we know about a word is a product of our encounters with it. This knowledge explains how speakers of a language succeed in being fluent, creative and natural.