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Visitors to ancient America : the evidence for European and Asian presence in America prior to Columbus McNeil, William F. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(4/5:7)"652/653"

comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland, and of the Northmen in America before Columbus Zeno, Nicolo 1873 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(491)"138"

A history of Jamaica from its discovery by Christopher Columbus to the year 1872 : including an account Gardner, W J 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.92

Christopher Columbus : his life, his work, his remains, as revealed by original printed and manuscript Thacher, John Boyd 1967 • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 92las Casas

The journal of his first voyage to America Columbus, Christopher 1925 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(7)"1492/1493"

A new theory on Columbus's voyage through the Bahamas / by Edwin A. Link and Marion C. Link. Paper contributing to the debate on the exact site of Columbus' first landfall in the new world. 1958. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4(729.6)"1492"

Tre lettere autografe di Cristoforo Colombo : conservate nel Palazzo Municipale di Genova Columbus, Christopher 1905? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 850-3

Diario de Colon : libro de la primera navegacion y descubrimiento de las Indias Columbus, Christopher 1962 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 629.123Nina

The diario of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America 1492-1493 Columbus, Christopher 1989 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Columbus

First voyage to America : from the log of the Santa Maria Columbus, Christopher 1992 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Columbus

Genealogical resources in English repositories Moulton, Joy Wade 1988 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.253(42)

The ordeal of Mr Pepys's clerk Wilson, John Harold 1972 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.066

The Early challenges of the America's Cup (1851-1937) John, Anthony 1986 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 797.144.092.1(745)

Five centuries of gunsmiths, swordsmiths and armourers 1400-1900 Gardner, Robert Edward 1948 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 623.44

Oceanography / Gross, M Grant. 1971. Gross, M Grant 1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.46

The Law of the sea : offshore boundaries and zones Law of the Sea Institute Annual Conference 1st : 1966 1967 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.3

America, Russia, hemp and Napoleon : American trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783-1812 Crosby, Alfred W 1965 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382:677.1

The evolution of visual signals on land and sea Woods, David Lyndon 1976 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.724/.725

Der Globus im Wandel der Zeiten : eine Geschichte der Globen Muris, Oswald 1961 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 528.951

The Hawkesworth copy : an investigation into the printer's copy used for the preparation of hte 1773 second edition of John Hawkesworth's account of Captain Cook's first voyage Ravneberg, Ronald L [2002] • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 091.6:82.083

Explorers and their quest for North America / Philip J. Potter. "On 11 October 1492 the sun set on a clear Atlantic Ocean horizon and the night was cloudless with a late rising moon. As the lookouts high in the riggings of Christopher Columbus' three ships strained their eyes into the golden light of the moon, near two o'clock in the morning the watchman on the Pinta shouted out, 'Land, land' igniting the era of exploration to the New World. The Age of Discovery became an epic adventure sweeping across the continent of North America, as the trailblazers dared to challenge the unknown wilderness to advance mankind's knowledge of the world. Explorers Discovering North America traces the history of the discovery, exploration and settlement of the western hemisphere through the comprehensive biographies of fourteen explorers, who had the courage and inquisitiveness to search the limits of the world. The book features many famous adventurers including Hernan Cortes whose victorious battles against the Aztecs conquered Mexico for Spain, Henry Hudson's sea voyages in search of the Northwest Passage led to the colonization of New York and exploration of the Hudson Bay in Canada, while Meriwether Lewis' journey across the Louisiana Purchase began the mass migration of settlers to western America. Among the lesser known explorers discussed in the work are Vitus Bering whose discovery of Alaska established Russia's claim to the region and Alexander Mackenzie's 107-day trek across western Canada that opened the frontier to settlement, commerce and development of its natural resources. From Columbus to Lewis the exploration of the New World became one of humankind's greatest quests that altered history forever."--Provided by the publisher 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(7)

Mutiny and its bounty : leadership lessons from the age of discovery /Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye. "Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery--so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, more social and intellectual, and far less violent, yet the coordinated defiance of authority springs from dissatisfactions very similar to those of long-ago shipboard crews. This highly original book mines seafaring logs and other archives of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century ship captains and discovers instructive lessons for today's leaders facing challenges to their authority as well as for other members of organizations in which mutinous events occur. The book begins by examining mutinies against great explorer captains of the Age of Discovery: Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Sebastian Cabot, and Henry Hudson. The authors then identify lessons that entrepreneurs, leaders, and other members may apply to organizational insurrections today. They find, surprisingly, that mutiny may be a force for good in an organization, paving the way to more collaborative leadership and stronger commitment to shared goals and values."-- 2013. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133

The great explorers / edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison. Short biographies of 40 explorers organised thematically with sections covering the exploration of the ocean, land, rivers, polar regions, deserts, life on earth and new frontiers, including caves, underwater and space. The explorers covered are Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, James Cook, Hernando de Soto, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Baines, Richard Burton, Nain Singh, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Ney Elias, Francis Younghusband, Marc Aurel Stein, Samuel de Champlain, James Bruce, Alexander Mackenzie, Mungo Park, John Hanning Speke, David Livingstone, Francis Garnier, Henry Morton Stanley, Fridtjof Nansen, Edward Wilson, Roald Amundsen, Wally Herbert, Heinrich Barth, Charles Sturt, Getrude Bell, Harry St John Philby, Ralph Bagnold, Wilfred Thesiger, Alexander von Humboldt, Marianne North, Alfred Russel Wallace, Frank Kingdom-Ward, Gino Watkins, Yuri Gagarin, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Andrew James Eavis. The text is illustrated throughout. A guide to further reading is provided. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92:910.4"15/..."

The year 1000 : when explorers connected the world-- and globalization began /Valerie Hansen. "When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the 'big bang' of globalization, which ushered in a new era of exploration and trade, and which paved the way for Europeans to dominate after Columbus reached America. Drawing on a wide range of new historical sources and cutting-edge archaeology, Hansen shows, for example, that the Maya began to trade with the native peoples of modern New Mexico from traces of theobromine - the chemical signature of chocolate - and that frozen textiles found in Greenland contain hairs from animals that could only have come from North America. Moreover, Hansen turns accepted wisdom on its head, revealing not only that globalization began much earlier than previously thought, but also that the world's first anti-globalization riots did too, in cities such as Cairo, Constantinople, and Guangzhou. Introducing players from Europe, the Islamic world, Asia, the Indian Ocean maritime world, the Pacific and the Mayan world who were connecting the major landmasses for the first time, this compelling revisionist argument shows how these encounters set the stage for the globalization that would dominate the world for centuries to come."--Provided by the publisher. 2020. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 909.1

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