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Author : Anne Paolucci
Publisher : Griffon House Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The story of Christopher Columbus still raises questions and controversies. In this book, Anne Paolucci reviews that story in bold strokes, giving the reader, in terse and compelling prose, the highlights of a life characterized by a brief success and many disappointments.Each chapter is divided into straightforward historical and biographical accounts and original literary narratives drawn, in most cases, from Paolucci s award-winning play."

Author : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0252091256

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The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.

Author : John Parsons
Publisher : Creative Book Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic journals
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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.

Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807135631

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Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889--1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer's essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians, and social scientists alike who continue to explore Sauer's work. In Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape, editors William M. Denevan and Kent Mathewson have compiled thirty-seven of Sauer's original works, including rare early writings, articles in now largely inaccessible publications, and transcriptions of key oral presentations that remain little known. A student of the relationships between land and life, people and places, Sauer helped establish landscape studies in cultural geography and paved the way for paradigmatic shifts in the scholarly assessment of Native American history. By strongly advocating a land ethic, "a responsible stewardship of the sustaining earth," for his own and for future generations, Carl Sauer supplied an esthetic rationale and a historical perspective to the environmental movement. The volume opens with two extended essays on Sauer's critics and his works. Essays by prominent geographers and other authorities on Sauer introduce each section of the book, adding a contemporary element to the presentation and interpretation of Sauer's life and scholarship in areas such as soil conservation, man in nature, and cultivated plants. A complete bibliography of his publications and an extensive compilation of commentaries on his life and work make this an indispensable reference. Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape sheds new light on Sauer's contributions to the history of geographic thought, sustainable land use, and the importance of biological and cultural diversity -- all of which remain key issues today.