Australian Travellers In The South Seas Av Nicholas Halter

<P><EM>South Seas Encounters</EM> examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus...

Published to coincide with the centenary of the scuttling of the German fleet, the last great action of the First World War.

Beatrice Grimshaw was born in Ireland. She was an adventurer at heart since childhood and an independent soul who longed to travel to far away places. Until 1903 she had been a freelance journalist, a tour organiser and an emigration promoter but her...

The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields. These navigators and their texts were instrumental in spurring exploration, annexation and colonisation...