The Explorers of South America

The Explorers of South America
Author: Edward Julius Goodman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806124209

A narrative history of exploration from Christopher Columbus to the 19th century, with journal excerpts, diaries and other writings of the explorers themselves. Goodman has marshaled his wide-ranging research and lifelong interest in exploration into a comprehensive, scholarly history. A reprint of the original 1972 edition, the tales have lost none of their luster.

African-American Exploration in West Africa

African-American Exploration in West Africa
Author: James Fairhead
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2003-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253110046

In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explore their African home. African-American Exploration in West Africa collects the travel diaries of James L. Sims, George L. Seymour, and Benjamin J. K. Anderson, who explored the territory that is now Liberia and Guinea between 1858 and 1874. These remarkable diaries reveal the wealth and beauty of Africa in striking descriptions of its geography, people, flora, and fauna. The dangers of the journeys surface, too -- Seymour was attacked and later died of his wounds, and his companion, Levin Ash, was captured and sold into slavery again. Challenging the notion that there were no black explorers in Africa, these diaries provide unique perspectives on 19th-century Liberian life and life in the interior of the continent before it was radically changed by European colonialism.

Arkansas Travelers

Arkansas Travelers
Author: Andrew J. Milson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610756657

Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association “I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the impact such travel narratives have had on geographical understandings of Arkansas places. Using the language in each traveler’s narrative, Milson suggests, and the book includes, new maps that trace these perceptions, illustrating not just the lands traversed, but the way travelers experienced and perceived place. By taking a geographical approach to the history of these spaces, Arkansas Travelers offers a deeper understanding—a deeper map—of Arkansas.

Builders of Our Country, Book II (Yesterday's Classics)

Builders of Our Country, Book II (Yesterday's Classics)
Author: Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth
Publisher: Builders of Our Country
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781599152332

A lively account of American history told through thirty-one biographies, beginning with Patrick Henry at the start of the Revolutionary War and ending with Andrew Carnegie at the close of the nineteenth century. The biographies are so chosen as to acquaint the reader with the chief personages and events in our national life, fixing them in his or her mind by many striking and vivid pictures of each. The heroes are treated in proportion to the reach of their influence, and include numerous inventors in addition to political and military figures.

Explorers Who Got Lost

Explorers Who Got Lost
Author: Diane Sansevere-Dreher
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1992-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812520385

Examines the adventures of such early explorers of America as Columbus, Dias, and Cabot. Includes information on the events, society, and superstitions of the times.

Roald Amundsen

Roald Amundsen
Author: Roald Amundsen
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1927
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Autobiography.