[PDF] Buccaneers Explorers And Settlers eBook

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1000938425

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Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers studies how during 'the long 18th century' British incursions into the Pacific transformed Europe's knowledge of that great ocean. Buccaneers devastated Spanish settlements and shipping in the South Sea, and the accounts by Dampier and his companions of their exploits became best-sellers. Anson's circumnavigation carried on the tradition of commerce-raiding, but it represented the beginnings of a more official interest in the Pacific and its resources. Later in the 18th century the hopes of speculative geographers that unknown continents and sea-passages existed in the Pacific prompted a series of expeditions by Cook and his contemporaries. New peoples were discovered as well as new lands, and the voyages led to changing perceptions of their lifestyles. Exploration was followed by trade and settlement in which Cook's associates such as Banks played a leading part. Before the end of the century there were British settlements in New South Wales, Nootka Sound had become a centre of international dispute, and across the Pacific traders, whalers and missionaries were following the tracks of the explorers.

Author : James Burney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486423289

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"As factual and...authentic as anything on the subject could be." — The New Yorker. One of the most comprehensive and accurate accounts of buccaneering, this exciting narrative is the work of an experienced 18th-century sailor who traveled with Captain James Cook before the celebrated mariner was killed in the Sandwich Islands.

Author : John Esquemeling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 035937543X

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THE term Buccaneer, in French Boucanier, is usually applied to certain pirates who during the seventeenth century committed great ravages upon the Spanish settlements in the West Indies, the adjacent main land, and the coast of Chili and Peru, and whose exploits it will be our province to describe in the following pages. Such term was, however, more accurately applied to a body of cattle hunters of all nations, but mainly French, who pursued their avocations in the forests of the Western and North Western districts of the Island of Hispaniola circumstances to be described hereafter caused these hunters to combine the trade in cattle with that of piracy, and the name, in consequence, lost its first significance of hunter and acquired its modern and better known one of pirate.

Author : James Burney
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
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ISBN : 9781290896054

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Author : Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
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ISBN : 9781298586308

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Author : Charles McClellan Stevens
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781021701510

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This thrilling book is a detailed account of the exploits of the buccaneers in the Caribbean during the 17th century. The author, Charles McClellan Stevens, has drawn on a variety of historical sources to piece together a vivid and compelling portrait of these notorious pirates and their violent exploits. This is a must-read for anyone interested in pirate history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Esquemeling
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781104267049

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