The Voyage Of The Matthew

Author : P. L. Firstbrook
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780771031212
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the Matthew written by P. L. Firstbrook and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 24 June 1497, the Genoese adventurer John Cabot, bearing letters patent from King Henry VII, became the first European known to have set foot in North America. (Cabot’s contemporary, Christopher Columbus, never actually landed in North America. To his dying day he thought it was the Orient.) Cabot’s triumphant appropriation of the “New Founde Land” for England capped one of the great maritime adventures of the late fifteenth century. Five hundred years later, the Matthew, a painstakingly constructed replica of Cabot’s three-masted caravel, sailed from Bristol, England, to Bonavista, Newfoundland. Her arrival marked the culmination of a maritime adventure as daring in its way as the voyage it commemorates. This time, however, the trials of the captain and sailors on board were recorded on camera and in reporters' notebooks for armchair onlookers to enjoy. Peter Firstbrook has been intimately involved in the recreation of Cabot’s voyage, from the laying down of the modern-day Matthew’s keel in 1993 to its sea trials in 1996 and the voyage itself in 1997. In these pages he relates all that is known about the fifteenth-century adventurer and describes the many challenges that confronted the team that set out to replicate his voyage. The book concludes, like Cabot’s own life, with a mystery: there is no record of how the great seafarer ended his days. He may have simply retired. He may have been lost in a storm on his last attempted voyage to America. Or he may, in fact, have returned to the newly discovered continent only to be murdered by a notorious Spanish buccaneer. This is a finely wrought story of adventure and discovery that will delight and entertain readers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : P. L. Firstbrook
Publisher : Kqed Books
ISBN 13 : 9780912333229
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the Matthew written by P. L. Firstbrook and published by Kqed Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the great Age of Discovery in the late 15th century, Peter Firstbrook called upon his knowledge of the sea and his love of sailing to reproduce Englishman John Cabot's 1497 landing on the North American continent--even down to the boat itself. His six-week voyage and the years of research, building, and practice leading up to it are chronicled in this book as well as in a six-part BBC/PBS series. 192 photos, 96 in color. Maps.

Author : Matthew Olshan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374329540
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage in the Clouds written by Matthew Olshan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.

Author : Ian Wilson
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550811315
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Cabot and the Matthew written by Ian Wilson and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s.

Author : Mary Caldwell
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574092677
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary's Voyage written by Mary Caldwell and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most successful sailing stories ever written is Desperate Voyage by John Caldwell. In this book, John, stranded penniless in Panama after World War II, sets out for Sydney to rejoin his wife Mary whom he had not seen since their three-day honeymoon over a year before. His famous book tells of the adventurous journey in a twenty-foot boat. Now, almost sixty years later, Mary tells her own story in this fascinating biography. Born in England, Mary immigrated with her family to Australia where she spent her early youth on a farm. As a young woman she served in the Australian Air Force. During the war she met Tex (future husband John Caldwell), a young cocky American who became the inspirational mainspring for her adventures. In 1952, after living in California for several years, Mary and John and their children became the first family to attempt a voyage around the world on a small sailing craft using only a sextant and dead reckoning to guide them across thousands of miles of ocean. Mary was pregnant at the beginning of the voyage and already had a toddler and an infant son in tow. Months would pass without sight of land. She gave birth to her youngest son in Tahiti, weathered constant seasickness and survived frightening ocean storms, several hurricanes, and a tsunami. Mary and John finally settled in the Grenadines where they built the world-renowned Palm Island resort. Mary¿s story of endurance and fearlessness is remarkable and inspiring.

Author : Steve Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952980421
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Matthew" written by Steve Martin and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Cuthbertson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780887804168
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Cabot & the Voyage of the Matthew written by Brian Cuthbertson and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the five-hundredth anniversary of Cabot's voyage and with the construction of a replica of the Matthew, this book provides a richly-illustrated glimpse at the dawn of the Age of Exploration. Drawing on paintings, maps and illustrations from Europe's finest museums, Brian Cuthbertson brings to vivid life the places and events that shaped Cabot's life, and his age, setting down available information on the original trip and the uncertain evidence of Cabot's landfall in North America. Photos of the Matthew replica being built and under full sail also illustrate the text. John Cabot & the Voyage of the Matthew is a vivid, colourful evocation of the spirit of a great explorer and his times.

Author : Jerome Beatty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth written by Jerome Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From observations made aboard an exploratory space voyage of moonlings to Earth, a moon lad deduces that life exists on the new planet.

Author : Matthew Solomon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438435827
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination written by Matthew Solomon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.

Author : Matthew Kneale
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673698
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Passengers written by Matthew Kneale and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated by over twenty distinct voices and full of dangerous humour, English Passengers combines wit, adventure and historical detail in a mesmerizing display of storytelling. When Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of smugglers have their contraband confiscated they are forced to put their ship, Sincerity, up for charter. The only takers are two Englishmen, the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson, who believes that the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania, and Dr. Thomas Potter who is developing his sinister thesis concerning the races of man. Meanwhile an aboriginal in Tasmania, Peevay, recounts his people's struggles against the invading British. As the English passengers haplessly approach his land, their bizarre notions ever more painfully at odds with reality, we know a mighty collision is looming.