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Crossing the Continent 1527 1540
Author | : Robert Goodwin |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780061981654 |
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"...an adventure story more thrilling than Defoe or Melville could have imagined."--The Philadelphia Inquirer The true story of America's first great explorer and adventurer—an African slave named Esteban Dorantes Crossing the Continent takes us on an epic journey from Africa to Europe and America as Dr. Robert Goodwin chronicles the incredible adventures of the African slave Esteban Dorantes (1500-1539), the first pioneer from the Old World to explore the entirety of the American south and the first African-born man to die in North America about whom anything is known. Goodwin's groundbreaking research in Spanish archives has led to a radical new interpretation of American history—one in which an African slave emerges as the nation's first great explorer and adventurer. Nearly three centuries before Lewis and Clark's epic trek to the Pacific coast, Esteban and three Spanish noblemen survived shipwreck, famine, disease, and Native American hostility to make the first crossing of North America in recorded history. Drawing on contemporary accounts and long-lost records, Goodwin recounts the extraordinary story of Esteban's sixteenth-century odyssey, which began in Florida and wound through what is now Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, as far as the Gulf of California. Born in Africa and captured at a young age by slave traders, Esteban was serving his owner, a Spanish captain, when their disastrous sea voyage to the New World nearly claimed his life. Eventually he emerged as the leader of the few survivors of this expedition, guiding them on an extraordinary eight-year march westward to safety. Filled with tales of physical endurance, natural calamities, geographical wonders, strange discoveries, and Esteban's almost mystical dealings with Native Americans, Crossing the Continent challenges the traditional telling of our nation's early history, placing an African and his relationship with the Indians he encountered at the heart of a new historical record.
First Across the Continent
Author | : Barry M. Gough |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806130024 |
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Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
A Tramp Across the Continent
Author | : Charles Fletcher Lummis |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Overland journeys to the Pacific |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWYPPY |
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Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.
Across the Continent
Author | : Jeffrey L. Hantman,Douglas Seefeldt,Peter S. Onuf |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813925959 |
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Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Finally, the discussion considers the various legacies of the expedition, in particular its impact on Native Americans, and the current struggle over who will control the narrative of the expansion of the American Empire. --from publisher description.
First Crossing
Author | : Derek Hayes |
Publsiher | : D & M Publishers |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1926706595 |
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First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway
Author | : Effie Price Gladding |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547246275 |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway" by Effie Price Gladding. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Lost Continent
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780385674560 |
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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Incontinent on the Continent
Author | : Jane Christmas |
Publsiher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-10-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781926812137 |
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To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, determined daughter Jane Christmas decides to take her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria, to Italy. Will being at the epicenter of the Renaissance spark a renaissance in their relationship? As they drag each other from the Amalfi Coast to Tuscany — walkers, shawls, and a mobile pharmacy of medications in tow — they find new ways to bitch and bicker, in the process reassessing who they are and how they might reconcile. Unflinching and often hilarious, this book speaks to all women who have faced that special challenge of making friends with Mom.