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2023

Bown Stephen R. Title : L'isola delle volpi azzurre. Disastro e trionfo della più grande spedizione scientifica di tutti i tempi
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Nutrimenti

La storia della spedizione scientifica più grande, più lunga e meglio finanziata di tutti i tempi. Guidata dal danese Vitus Bering, esplorò il passaggio fra la Russia e il Nord America, con un esito trionfale e tragico allo stesso tempo. Non era mai stata raccontata per intero, fino ad ora. La Grande spedizione, nota anche come Seconda spedizione in Kamchatka o la Grande spedizione del Nord, da San Pietroburgo attraverso la Siberia fino alla costa del Nord America,  è stata la spedizione scientifica più ambiziosa e ben finanziata della storia. È durata quasi dieci anni, ha abbracciato tre continenti e le sue scoperte geografiche, cartografiche e di storia naturale sono alla pari con i viaggi di James Cook, o le circumnavigazioni scientifiche di Alessandro Malaspina e Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Concepita da Pietro il Grande negli anni Trenta del Settecento, l'impresa gli costò oltre un sesto delle entrate annuali del suo impero. Fu guidata dall'ufficiale di Marina Vitus Bering, coinvolse quasi tremila scienziati, segretari, interpreti, artisti, geometri, ufficiali di Marina, marinai, soldati e operai, che dovettero attraversare ottomila chilometri di foreste senza strade, paludi e tundra, insieme ad attrezzature, provviste, biblioteche e strumenti scientifici. Oltre al clavicordo appartenente alla moglie di Bering, Anna. Gli obiettivi scientifici includevano lo studio di flora, fauna e minerali, nonché la verifica di ipotesi stravaganti sui popoli siberiani. Dopo che la spedizione raggiunse la costa orientale dell'Asia, Bering supervisionò la costruzione di due navi, la
€ 19,00     Scontato: € 18,05
1915

Bown Stephen R. Title : White Eskimo
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Da Capo Pr

'While Amundsen, Franklin, and Peary were first to explore the furthest geographical reaches of the Polar North, Knud Rasmussen was the first to explore its culture and its soul. Part Danish, part Inuit, the famed explorer anthropologist made an epic three year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska recording not only the landscapes but also the songs and stories of the Eskimo people. In the ranks of the great explorer/writers who opened hitherto impenetrable cultures to the West--T.E. Lawrence in the Mideast, Wilfred Thesiger among the Bedouin, Richard Burton in Africa or among the Sufi--Rasmussen stars not only for his physical courage and ability to assimilate into the life of indigenous peoples, but also for the beauty of his writing. Across Arctic America and his collection of Eskimo songs and stories are classics of Polar literature. There has been no full-scale biography of Rasmussen in English, and Stephen Bown's splendidly received life of Roald Amundsen makes him the perfect writer to record the great journeys and fascinating life of the Inuit from Greenland through the Northwest Passage, to Alaska'--
€ 25,90
1913

Bown Stephen R. Title : The Last Viking
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Da Capo Pr

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Féted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.

Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen’s life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of The Endurance, and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story.

€ 16,10
1912

Bown Stephen R. Title : The Last Viking
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Perseus Books Group

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Féted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.

Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen's life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of The Endurance, and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story.

€ 26,80
1910

Bown Stephen R. Title : Merchant Kings
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world

It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.

The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded approach lost Manhattan to the British; Robert Clive, who rose from company clerk to become head of the British East India Company and one of the wealthiest men in Britain; Alexandr Baranov of the Russian American Company; Cecil Rhodes, founder of De Beers and Rhodesia; and George Simpson, the “Little Emperor” of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was chauffeured about his vast fur domain in a giant canoe, exhorting his voyageurs to paddle harder so he could set speed records.

Merchant Kings looks at the rise and fall of company rule in the centuries before colonialism, when nations belatedly assumed responsibility for their commercial enterprises. A blend of biography, corporate history, and colonial history, this book offers a panoramic, new perspective on the enormous cultural, political, and social legacies, good and bad, of this first period of unfettered globalization.


€ 26,80

Cheadle Walter B., Bown Stephen R. (INT) Title : Cheadle's Journal of Trip Across Canada, 1862-1863
Author: Cheadle Walter B., Bown Stephen R. (INT)
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books Inc

Walter B. Cheadle's diary tells his incredible story of travelling with Lord Milton, as they journeyed along the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862-63. A miraculously successful expedition, the men traversed the continent, making their way from Quebec, through Saskatchewan, Alberta, up the Athabasca River, risking their lives opening the trails through the Canadian Rockies, and eventually arriving in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1863. Cheadle's candid and gritty but also humorous account tells, in intimate detail, what life and travel was like in the Northwest and BC during the latter days of the fur-trade era. He acknowledges the heavy debt owed by all the early explorers to the Plains Indians, who passed on to the first white men their sophistication in the ways of the wilderness. He also records the gradual demoralization of the Native people under the impact of European culture. A welcome addition to the Classics West series, Cheadle's Journal is a rare and important document of a remarkable life and time.


€ 18,50
2008

Bown Stephen R. Title : Madness, Betrayal and the Lash
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Renouf Pub Co Ltd

From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition ? and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history's greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his marine survey of Hawaii and the Pacific coast was at its time the most comprehensive ever undertaken. But just two years after returning to Britain, the 40-year-old Vancouver, hounded by critics, shamed by public humiliation at the fists of an aristocratic sailor he had flogged, and blacklisted because of a perceived failure to follow the Admiralty's directives, died in poverty, nearly forgotten. In this riveting and perceptive biography, historian Stephen Bown delves into the events that destroyed Vancouver's reputation and restores his position as one of the greatest explorers of the Age of Discovery.

€ 34,10
2005

Bown Stephen R. Title : Scurvy
Author: Bown Stephen R.
Publisher: Griffin

Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battles at sea. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored.

From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half a chance of surviving the scourge, to the early nineteenth century, when the British conquered scurvy and successfully blockaded the French and defeated Napoleon, Scurvy is a medical detective story for the ages, the fascinating true story of how James Lind (the surgeon), James Cook (the mariner), and Gilbert Blane (the gentleman) worked separately to eliminate the dreaded affliction.

Scurvy is an evocative journey back to the era of wooden ships and sails, when the disease infiltrated every aspect of seafaring life: press gangs 'recruit' mariners on the way home from a late night at the pub; a terrible voyage in search of riches ends with a hobbled fleet and half the crew heaved overboard; Cook majestically travels the South Seas but suffers an unimaginable fate. Brimming with tales of ships, sailors, and baffling bureaucracy, Scurvy is a rare mix of compelling history and classic adventure story.

€ 19,60


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