[PDF] The Last Voyage Of John Cabot And The Rock At Grates Cove eBook

Author : R.A. Skelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1317039521

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The voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and their English contemporaries were made, for the most part, in search of a westward passage to Asia, and they resulted in the revelation of North America. The evidences are printed here, with an indication of their origins. Some are obscure in meaning, incomplete in statement, or mutually contradictory; and we are left with the certainty that important documents have existed or may now exist, which are still unknown. Dr Williamson interprets the evidence we have. Parts of his undertaking are in the nature of detective work and he does not claim that his solutions are final, which would be impossible in the face of new evidence that may at any time occur. Cabot study is a continuing mental adventure. The maps are an important category of the evidence. Mr R.A. Skelton of the British Museum has contributed a treatment of them, authoritative in its explanations, and a valuable admonition on what can and cannot be expected of the material. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1962.

Author : John Parsons
Publisher : Creative Book Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Author : John Parsons
Publisher : Creative Book Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : William F. Ganong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 1964-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1487597371

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The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the years from 1929 to 1937 included a series in nine parts of important papers on "Crucial Maps" which have been a frequent source of reference ever since for students of the history of discovery and of early cartography. Their author, William Francis Ganong, had a life-long interest in the natural and human history of his native province, New Brunswick. Although he was primarily a botanist, with four full-length books and an amazing number of articles to his credit, it was through his series of monographs in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada that the breadth of his interests became known. For over fifty years he contributed almost annually to the Transactions the results of his systematic investigations into New Brunswick's physiography, aborigines, early explorations, wars and settlements. Crucial Maps, which concluded in 1937, was the last series of articles. Ganong was the first investigator to employ a critical classification of maps based upon groupings by period and type, although the cartography of Canada's east coast had earlier been introduced by Baron Alexander von Humboldt. Ganong's contributions to cartography are enormous: for example, his reconstruction of Cabot's voyages, while all may not agree with it, is a masterpiece of inductive analysis which will remain a model in historical research; his chapters on Gomez, Verrazzano and Fagundes are still the chief secondary sources on these discoverers. There have been notable additions to the bibliography of discovery and maps since Ganong wrote; recently published works as well as the complete file of Ganong's correspondence with his fellow cartographer, G.R.F. Prowse, were consulted by Theodore E. Layng, Map Division, Public Archives of Canada, in preparing the commentaries which accompany this edition of Crucial Maps. These commentaries, with Mr. Layng's introduction, also provide an interesting sketch of Dr. Ganong and his work. Another important feature of this edition is the index prepared by William Morley of the John Carter Brown Library. In much of his work Ganong was a pioneer, and, while subsequent studies have reached different conclusions on some points, many of his results have seldom been challenged. Students of the present and future will still use and quote from Crucial Maps. Royal Society of Canada Special Publications No. 7

Author : Robin S. Doak
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780756504205

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A biography of the English explorer who set sail for Asia and eventually discovered Newfoundland. Chronicles the life of explorer John Cabot, describing his expeditions to the Orient and Newfoundland.