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Age of Exploration Flyer POSTER INSIDE POSTER Age of Exploration A DIGITAL RESOURCE Introduction Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, new trade routes, and conflict over territories. Overview This impressive multi-archive collection focuses on “This remarkable collection European, maritime exploration from the earliest voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher provides the documentary Columbus, through the age of discovery, the search base to interpret some of the for the ‘New World’, the establishment of European settlements on every continent, to the eventual major movements of the age discovery of the Northwest and Northeast Passages, of exploration. The variety and the race for the Poles. of the sources made available Bringing together material from twelve archives from opens perspectives that should around the world, this collection includes documents challenge students and bring the relating to major events in European maritime history from the voyages of James Cook to the search for period to life. It is a collection John Franklin’s doomed mission to the Northwest that promotes both historical Passage. It contains a host of additional features for analysis and imagination.” teaching, such as an interactive map which presents an in-depth visualisation of over 50 of these Emeritus Professor John Gascoigne influential voyages. University of New South Wales Highlights Material Types • Captain Cook’s secret instructions, ships’ logs and • Le Livre des merveilles by Marco Polo including the • Diaries, journals and ships’ logbooks journals from three voyages of James Cook, written illuminations of Maître d’Egerton – this illuminated Printed and manuscript books by various crew members and Cook himself which relate manuscript compendium dates from c.1410-1412 and • to early British Pacific exploration and the search for is comprised of geographical works and accounts of • Correspondence, notes and ephemera Terra Australis. travels in Asia and Africa. • Scientific papers, surveys, reports and government documents • Detailed accounts of John Franklin’s first two • Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks – President of the attempts to find the Northwest Passage as well as Royal Society, well-respected botanist and proponent • Publicity and newspaper clippings several documents related to his lost expedition and of the British colonisation of Australia. • Maps and charts subsequent rescue attempts. • South – Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the • Artwork, photographs and objects • De varietate fortunae liber IV, an important account Antarctic (1919): this silent film includes footage from Film footage and audio from around 1500 of the travels of Nicolò de Conti, who Shackleton’s Endurance expedition which is considered • travelled in the East for more than twenty-five years. the last major expedition of Antarctic Exploration. • Sino-Spanish Codex (Boxer Codex) – this beautifully illustrated document describes countries and peoples bordering the China Sea – especially Japan, China and the Philippines – and is an important piece on early encounters. • Documents relating to figures such asFrancis Drake, Walter Raleigh and Martin Frobisher which highlight a fascinating period of early British exploration and forays into privateering and piracy. The interactive map feature plots over 50 voyages Key Themes Editorial Board • Expedition Planning, Financing & Sponsorship Stephanie Barczewski Clemson University • Ships & Provisions Imre Demhardt New Commodities & Trade • University of Texas Arlington New Territories • John Gascoigne • Ports, Forts & Entrepôts University of New South Wales • Competition Marguerite Ragnow • Life at Sea James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota • Indigenous Peoples and José Damião Rodrigues Age of Exploration tells the story Early Encounters Universidade de Lisboa • Navigation, Scientific Benjamin Schmidt of European maritime exploration Observations & Instruments University of Washington from c.1420-1920 and focuses • Personal and Family Life Philip Stern primarily on western European Duke University Glyn Williams explorers – British, French, Spanish, Queen Mary, University of London Portuguese and Dutch in particular – Source Archives and their sea-faring voyages to locate ‘new lands’, trade routes, establish • Alexander Turnbull Library, colonies and settlements, and advance National Library of New Zealand their scientific knowledge over • American Philosophical Society a five-hundred-year period. • Bibliothèque nationale de France • British Film Institute • British Library • Glenbow • James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota • Lilly Library, Indiana University • Massachusetts Historical Society • The Explorers Club The National Archives, UK • Contact us for a free trial at • The Newberry Library www.amdigital.co.uk www.amdigital.co.uk @AdamMatthewGrp /TheAdamMatthewGroup The publisher is grateful to the source archives for the reproduction of images used in this flyer. Cover image – HMS ‘Resolution’ and ‘Discovery’ in Tahiti, John Cleveley the younger (1747–1786) © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
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