The Explorers of South America

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1992 - 408 Seiten

A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster.

 

Inhalt

The Missionaries
87
The Bandeirantes
102
Chilean Archipelago
170
The Measurement of the Earth
183
EighteenthCentury Maritime Scientific
204
EighteenthCentury Continental Scientific
222
The New World of Alexander von Humboldt
245
The Great Naturalists
267
Private and Privately Sponsored
332
The Mountains and the Desert
348
TwentiethCentury Exploration
361
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Seite 387 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.

Autoren-Profil (1992)

Edward J. Goodman is Emeritus Professor of History at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He says of The Explorers of South America, "It is the story of the brave and the foolhardy, the saints and the scoundrels, the learned and the unlettered, the aristocrats and the lowborn--the men who for four and a half centuries have explored the 'green continent.'"

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