by Miriam Estensen, Terra Australis Incognita Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Terra Australis Incognita books, In October 1606, the great Spanish navigator Luis Vaes de Torres took two vessels through the waters that divide the land masses of New Guinea and Australia. In a journey of great adventure, courage and hardship, he was the first European to sail through today's Torres Strait and very possibly the first European to sight the east coast of Australia. Terra Australis Incognita focuses new light on the Spanish voyages of discovery that sailed from South America into the unknown south western Pacific in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Crossing the planet's largest ocean in small wooden ships with rudimentary navigation, these Spanish conquistadors were in search of the legendary Great South Land first imagined by the ancient Greeks. This is a story of passionate beliefs, of high hopes and catastrophic failures, of attempted colonies that ended in death and disaster, of violent confrontations and tentative friendship with indigenous people, of a fierce clash of cultures, and relentless ambition in search of the gold of King Solomon's Ophir. It is also the story of the visionary adventurer Quiros who planned a New Jerusalem in today's Vanuatu, the ruthless woman governor Dona Isabel, the Solomon Islander chief Bilebanarra who was a friend of the Spaniards and, of course, the great leader of men Luis Vaes de Torres. Terra Australis Incognita is a thoroughly researched, lucidly written and unique narrative on the little known history of the great Spanish explorations of the Pacific Ocean.
by Dieter Lohmann, Terra Australis Incognita Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Terra Australis Incognita books, Der Mythos vom sagenumwobenen Südland, der Terra Australis Incognita, reicht zurück bis in die Antike. Schon die alten Griechen vermuteten, dass ganz weit unten im Süden eine riesige Landmasse zu finden sein müsse, die als Gegengewicht zu den Kontinenten der Nordhalbkugel die Erde im Gleichgewicht hält. Mit Beginn des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen im 15. Jahrhundert machten sich dann die Europäer auf die Suche nach diesem Superkontinent, einem Land wo - wie man damals glaubte - "Milch und Honig fließen" sollten. Spanier, Holländer und Briten, alle wichtigen seefahrenden Nationen beteiligten sich an dieser jahrhundertelangen Hetzjagd. Was sie nach zahllosen Enttäuschungen letztlich fanden, waren zahllose Inseln im Pazifik, die Antarktis und ... das Land "down under", Australien.
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by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Terra Australis Incognita Or A New Southern Discovery Containing A Fifth Part Of The World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Terra Australis Incognita Or A New Southern Discovery Containing A Fifth Part Of The World books, "Terra Australis Incognita; Or, A New Southern Discovery, containing A Fifth Part of the World" by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
by Pedro Fernández Quirós, Terra Australis Incognita Or A New Southerne Discoverie Containing A Fifth Part Of The World Descubrimiento De Australia Engl Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Terra Australis Incognita Or A New Southerne Discoverie Containing A Fifth Part Of The World Descubrimiento De Australia Engl books,
by Barbara Miller, The European Quest To Find Terra Australis Incognita Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The European Quest To Find Terra Australis Incognita books,
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by Libby McMahon, Exploring The South Land Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Exploring The South Land books, Exploring the South Land is a celebration of the mapmaker's art - commencing with the 1606 voyage of Captain Willem Janszoon, the first European to chart part of the unknown southern continent. This book documents, by means of a sequence of historical maps, the emergence of knowledge over 400 years from the time that navigators began probing south in search of Terra Australis Incognita until the modern outlines of Australia and Tasmania were determined.
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