Author: Charles Hughes Hamlin
Publisher: Clearfield Co
Keywords: vols, adventurers, ancestors, virginia
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2001
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0806306424
ISBN-13: 9780806306421

This collection of genealogical vignettes derives from a variety of miscellaneous records and documents. Like the author’s They Went Thataway, it attempts to prove, by a process of careful selection and evaluation, the Virginia connections of an individual or family, focusing exclusively on those persons who either moved to or from Virginia. All data originates from records in the public domain and includes materials drawn from wills, deeds, court orders, census records, tax records, birth, death, and marriage records, church records, military records, powers of attorney, and estate reco

Author: Nayan Chanda
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: warriors, shaped, globalization, adventurers, preachers, together, traders, bound
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-05-28
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0300112017
ISBN-13: 9780300112016

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease.In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expan

Author: Nayan Chanda
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: warriors, shaped, globalization, adventurers, preachers, together, traders, bound
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0300136234
ISBN-13: 9780300136234

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease.In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding

Author: Sherry Monahan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, lifestyles, communities, peak, adventurers, pikes
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-07-30
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738520624
ISBN-13: 9780738520629

Before being discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806, the Pike’s Peak region was home to a variety of different cultures, including Native Americans, Mexicans, and French and Spanish explorers. Captured here in almost 200 vintage images are the lives, trials, adventures, and leisures of some of the Peak’s early pioneers and visitors, covering a span of almost 60 years. Along with rare images of the Pike’s Peak area from the late 1800s, this collection contains a number of previously unpublished photographs. These include pictures of female pioneers traversing mountai

Author: Thomas Suarez
Publisher: Periplus Editions
Keywords: mapped, first, regions, china, india, cartographers, adventurers, asia, southeast, epic, story, seafarers, mapping
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-11-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 9625934707
ISBN-13: 9789625934709

Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of mapmaking, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It surveys Southeast Asia’s geography and civilizations, its maps and their influence on Western worldviews, as well as the image of Southeast Asia in the eyes of its neighbors.

Authors:Alecia T. Devantier, Carol Ann Turkington,
Publisher: Ferguson Publishing Company
Keywords: jobs, extreme, adventurers, extraordinary
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0816058520
ISBN-13: 9780816058525

Authors:George Ely Russell, Donna Valley Russell,
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: ark, dove, society, adventurers
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2009-12-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0806317620
ISBN-13: 9780806317625