Stephen R Bown: 9 books
by Stephen R. Bown
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 4, 2013
A história ensina que o descobrimento da América por Colombo, em 1492, trouxe à tona uma questão delicada. A expedição do navegador genovês havia sido financiada por dois diferentes patronos, com longo histórico de antipatia mútua: de um lado, o rei português Dom João II; de outro, os reis...
The Last Viking
The Life of Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
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...
1494
How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays."
--Toronto Star
In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells...
White Eskimo
Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made...
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash
The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
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...
Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
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...
Forgotten Highways
Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Traversing the historic trails of the Rockies today is done in much the same manner as it was two centuries ago—primarily on foot with heavy packs, with little better defence against mosquitoes or the elements. Although accurate maps are available, and modern technology such as global positioning...
Island of the Blue Foxes
Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition,...
Scurvy
How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
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...