与路易-安托万-德-布干维尔(Louis-Antoine de Bougainville)一起启航前往塔希提岛,或与儒勒-杜蒙-德维尔(Jules Dumont d'Urville)一起前往南极洲。了解十八世纪俄罗斯对阿拉斯加的统治,或荷兰人如何用曼哈顿与英国人交换印尼小岛上珍贵的肉豆蔻种植园。本书图文并茂,收录了约 300 篇文献--包括以前未曾发表或罕见的文字、未经过滤的旅行日志摘录、地图以及几个世纪前的素描本插图--读者可以从中了解这些无畏的旅行者以及他们非凡的科学、军事或商业航行,这些航行在世界探索史上留下了浓墨重彩的一笔,并促进了我们对地理、制图、气候变化和全球文化的现代理解。未经过滤的旅行日志摘录、每位探险家的原创作品以及此前未曾发表的私人信件,让读者身临其境地了解他们的冒险经历。这些罕见的第一人称历史记述为读者深入了解他们的思想、关注点和当代态度提供了启迪,涉及殖民化、贸易和地缘政治等主题,与现代问题息息相关。这些罕见的第一手资料提供了有关殖民化、贸易和地缘政治等主题的历史态度的启发性见解,与现代问题有着惊人的相关性。
Sixteen French explorers embark readers on their voyages around the world, to witness the trials and tribulations encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories.
Set sail to Tahiti with Louis-Antoine de Bougainville or to Antarctica with Jules Dumont d’Urville. Learn about Russian domination of Alaska in the eighteenth century, or how the Dutch traded Manhattan to the British for the precious nutmeg plantations on a tiny Indonesian island. Beautifully illustrated with some 300 documents—including previously unpublished or rare texts, unfiltered extracts from travel journals, maps, and illustrations from centuries-old sketchbooks—readers discover these intrepid travelers and their extraordinary scientific, military, or commercial voyages, which have significantly marked the history of world exploration and contributed to our modern understanding of geography, cartography, climate change, and global cultures. Unfiltered extracts from travel journals, original works by each explorer, and previously unpublished personal correspondence plunge readers into the heart of their adventures. These rare first-person historical accounts provide enlightening insight into their thoughts, concerns, and contemporary attitudes—touching on themes such as colonization, religion, trade, and geopolitics—with relevance that strikes the chords of modern-day issues. These rare first-person accounts provide enlightening insight into historical attitudes on themes such as colonization, religion, trade, and geopolitics—with uncanny relevance to modern-day issues.
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