The Great South Sea
Title | The Great South Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Glyndwr Williams |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300105681 |
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of George Anson in the 1740s, a series of predatory English adventurers pursued Spanish treasure, and for a few the dream of riches came true. For most, the voyages ended in disappointment, and sometimes death. This engrossing book investigates these maritime adventures and how they were described in popular accounts of the time--accounts that affected English consciousness and perceptions of the wider world and that influenced the planning and nature of the later great voyages of James Cook and others. Glyndwr Williams, a leading expert on the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, draws on printed accounts of South Sea voyages as well as unpublished records--buccaneer journals, expedition papers, and government documents from public and private archives. For English seamen preying on Spanish trade and treasure, the South Sea was limited to the waters lapping the shores of Chile, Peru, and Mexico. But the vision was wider for others, Williams reveals. Cartographers at home in England, untrammeled by the constraints and dangers of actual voyaging, produced speculative maps with a vast Terra Australis Incognita, with fabulous Islands of Solomon, and with a promised short passage from Atlantic to Pacific. Satirical and utopian writers from Joseph Hall to Jonathan Swift found ample space in the wide ocean for their fictional travelers. And contemporary published voyage accounts--marvelous, though not necessarily reliable--further blurred the line between real and imaginary, contributing to the alluring, exotic image of the South Sea that took root in English folk memory and long outlasted the age of the buccaneers.
The South Sea Bubble
Title | The South Sea Bubble PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Paul |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2010-09-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136903100 |
The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up until now, economic history research has not been integrated into mainstream histories of 1720. Technical work on share prices and ledgers has been inaccessible to a wider audience. As well as providing new evidence against the gambling mania argument, the book also interprets the existing economic history scholarship for non-specialists.
South Sea Vagabonds
Title | South Sea Vagabonds PDF eBook |
Author | John Wray |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781869504434 |
The South Sea Bubble
Title | The South Sea Bubble PDF eBook |
Author | John Carswell |
Publisher | Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Finance |
ISBN | 9780750927994 |
This classic account of the first great British financial scandal is a brilliant recreation of eighteenth-century social and economic life and will interest anyone fascinated by scandal, corruption, and human vanity.
Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea
Title | Through Atolls and Islands in the Great South Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Joseph Moss |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Coral reefs and islands |
ISBN |
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea Or Pacific Ocean ...: 1620-1688
Title | A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea Or Pacific Ocean ...: 1620-1688 PDF eBook |
Author | James Burney |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 1813 |
Genre | Buccaneers |
ISBN |
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Title | A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | James Burney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 1813 |
Genre | Buccaneers |
ISBN | 1108024106 |
Captain James Burney (1750–1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second voyage between 1772 and 1774, and was also present on the ill-fated third voyage. He retired from the navy in 1784 and turned to writing works on exploration. These volumes, published between 1803 and 1817, and regarded as the standard work on the subject for much of the nineteenth century, contain collected accounts of European voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean between 1492 and 1764. Burney provides summaries of Spanish, Dutch and English accounts, which include descriptions of voyages to China, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia. These volumes also encompass voyages to California and the Western coast of America, Mexico, Peru, Chile and other Central and South American destinations -- including islands in the vicinity of these locations, such as the Galapagos archipelago. While the main focus is on exploration in the Pacific some content includes Atlantic content covering the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and the West Indies.