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Shores of Discovery explores the lives and motives of those who have engaged in every conceivable kind of expedition: military, missionary, commercial, scientific, even tourist. It examines the bonds linking companies and bands, crews and fleets of soldiers, sailors, missionaries, and merchants, and the causes inspiring them to leave home, cross vast distances, and arrive in foreign lands.
Memorable in their own right as stories of human aspiration, these sagas of attempts to go beyond the limits of the known offer vital clues to our own time about how different nations and cultures communicate across the boundaries of words. Through the exchange of gods and goods and information, through wordless gesture and the sharing of clothing, through music and dance, medicine and painting, these voyagers have constructed the world.
Memorable in their own right as stories of human aspiration, these sagas of attempts to go beyond the limits of the known offer vital clues to our own time about how different nations and cultures communicate across the boundaries of words. Through the exchange of gods and goods and information, through wordless gesture and the sharing of clothing, through music and dance, medicine and painting, these voyagers have constructed the world.
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A fascinating journey across time and space through the world's most celebrated expeditions. "A fresh, intriguing, and suggestive take on the gestalt of history. In other words, it's a trip."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Eric Leed is a Professor of History at Florida International University.
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- PublisherBasic Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0465020968
- ISBN 13 9780465020966
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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