To the people of the ancient world, the sun in the sky overhead, the changing seasons, the idea of north and south, were all much more substantial and concrete concepts than they are to us today.
An edition of Latitude zero
(2001)
Latitude zero
tales of the Equator
1st ed.
by Gianni Guadalupi
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Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator
November 22, 2002, Carroll & Graf
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0786711183 9780786711185
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Latitude zero: tales of the Equator
2001, Carroll & Graf
in English
- 1st ed.
0786709014 9780786709014
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. ANTIQUITY 1
1. The Secrets of the Southern Seas 6
II. SOUTH AMERICA 19
2. The Unfortunate Conquistador: Orellana, 1540-1545 24
3. The Mutinous Conquistador: Aguirre, 1559-1561 36
4. The Man Who Met the Amazons: Quesada, 1569-1572; Berrio, 1580-1590;
Sir Walter Raleigh, 1595-1618; Bernard O'Brien, 1620-1634 45
5. Measuring the Earth: De La Condamine, 1735-1744 55
6. The Penelope of Riobamba, 1745-1770 65
7. The Nude Baroness: Elisa von Wagner, 1932-1934 75
III. AFRICA 85
8. Joan of Arc of the Kongo, 1483-1706 89
9. The Impossible Lakes: Burton, Speke, and Grant, 1848-1858 98
10. The Nile Unveiled: Burton, Speke, and Grant, 1860-1864 108
11. The Missing Lake: Baker, 1864-1865 119
12. The Man-Eaters: Carlo iaggia, 1863; Georg Schweinfurth, 1868 128
13. The Front Page: Henry Morton Stanley and Dr. Livingstone, 1866-1877 134
14. The Conquest of Equatoria, 1869-1873 150
15. The Calamities of Equatoria: Baker, 1873; Lord Gordon, 1880-1885;
Stanley and Emin Bey, 1887-1893 160
16. Heart of Darkness, 1878-1905 181
IV. ASIA/OCEANIA 195
17. Maluku: Magellan and the Spice Islands, 1519-1521 199
18. The White Raja: Sir James Brooke, 1839-1868 214
19. Around the World in Thirty-five Hours: Krakatoa, 1883 235
20. Tusitala in Equator Town: Robert Louis Stevenson in the Gilbert Islands, 1889-1894 240.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.
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