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The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time — John Shaqi

The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeHartwig, G. (Georg)

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The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Name: The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Author: Hartwig, G. (Georg)

Hartwig, G. (Georg)

Animal behavior; Discoveries in geography; Discoveries in geography -- History; Marine animals; Marine plants; Ocean

Maritime Discoveries of the Phœnicians.--Expedition of Hanno.
  --Circumnavigation of Africa under the Pharaoh Necho.--Colæus of
  Samos.--Pytheas of Massilia.--Expedition of Nearchus.
  --Circumnavigation of Hindostan under the Ptolemies.--Voyages of
  Discovery of the Romans.--Consequences of the Fall of the Roman
  Empire.--Amalfi.--Pisa.--Venice.--Genoa.--Resumption of Maritime
  Intercourse between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.--Discovery
  of the Mariner's Compass.--Marco Polo                                443


  CHAPTER XXIV.

  Prince Henry of Portugal.--Discovery of Porto Santo and Madeira.
  --Doubling of Cape Bojador.--Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands.
  --Bartholomew Diaz.--Vasco de Gama.--Columbus.--His Predecessors.
  --Discovery of Greenland by Günnbjorn.--Bjorne Herjulfson.--Leif.
  --John Vaz Cortereal.--John and Sebastian Cabot.--Retrospective
  View of the Beginnings of English Navigation.--Ojeda and Amerigo
  Vespucci.--Vincent Yañez Pinson.--Cortez.--Verazzani.--Cartier.
  --The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean                                 454


  CHAPTER XXV.

  Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.--His Discovery of the Pacific, and subsequent
  Fate.--Ferdinand Magellan.--Sebastian el Cano, the first
  Circumnavigator of the Globe.--Discoveries of Pizarro and Cortez.
  --Urdaneta.--Juan Fernandez.--Mendoza.--Drake.--Discoveries of the
  Portuguese and Dutch in the Western Pacific.--Attempts of the Dutch
  and English to discover North-East and North-West Passages to India.
  --Sir Hugh Willoughby and Chancellor.--Frobisher.--Davis.--Barentz.
  --His Wintering in Nova Zembla.--Quiros.--Torres.--Schouten.--Le
  Maire.--Abel Tasman.--Hudson.--Baffin.--Dampier.--Anson.--Byron.
  --Wallis and Carteret.--Bougainville                                 464


  CHAPTER XXVI.

  What had Cook's Predecessors left him to discover?--His first Voyage.
  --Discovery of the Society Islands, and of the East Coast of New
  Holland.--His second Voyage.--Discovery of the Hervey Group.
  --Researches in the South Sea.--The New Hebrides.--Discovery of New
  Caledonia and of South Georgia.--His third Voyage.--The Sandwich
  Islands.--New Albion.--West Georgia.--Cook's Murder.--Vancouver.
  --La Peyrouse                                                        485


  CHAPTER XXVII.

  Scoresby.--The Arctic Navigators.--Ross.--Parry.--Sufferings of
  Franklin and his Companions on his Overland Expedition in 1821.
  --Parry's Sledge-journey to the North Pole.--Sir John Franklin.
  --M'Clure.--Kane.--M'Clintock.--South Polar Expeditions.
  --Bellinghausen.--Weddell.--Biscoe.--Balleny.--Dumont d'Urville.
  --Wilkes.--Sir James Ross.--Recent Scientific Voyages of
  Circumnavigation                                                     496


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ARCTIC SLEDGE-JOURNEY.

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