- Jun 3, 2007
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- A sharp eye, an AquaPulse and a finely tuned shrimp fork.
- Primary Interest:
- Shipwrecks
I've been doing some online searching for research materials and decided that I would start a thread for myself and others who are interested in such things to share links and documents and avoid so much duplication of effort. This is that thread.
I still like print books. I have hundreds, but I can't afford all that I would like to have and damned sure couldn't store them and stay married.
Project Gutenberg was organized to digitize and save books whose copyrights have expired and have migrated into the public domain. Here is, for instance, the search result for "buccaneers" http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Buccaneers
Project Gutenberg main search page: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/
Google Books is a good spot to look as well: Here's the result of a search for A Buccaneer's Atlas, one of my favorites : https://books.google.com/books?id=Z...ose&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Basil Ringrose&f=false
Google Books search page: https://books.google.com/
The online "Archive of the Indies" in Seville: Portada del Archivo General de Indias - Archivo General de Indias - Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Dr E Lee Spence's website "Shipwrecks.com" : Shipwrecks.com
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's shipwreck database-there's not a lot there, but it may be what you are looking for:
https://www.boem.gov/Shipwrecks/
The US Coast Guard publishes something of a research guide that I have found useful: https://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBSHIPWRECKS/SHIPWRECKGUIDE.asp
The Indian River County Library has a nice collection. Here is the inventory there: http://www.irclibrary.org/pdf/shipwrecks1715.pdf
That's all I have time for at present. Please add to the list if you can.
Speaking of The Buccaneer's Atlas - here is a description of this most fascinating journal.
"On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero, or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded that the buccaneers be brought to trial. The derrotero was ordered to be brought to King Charles II, who apparently appreciated its great intelligence value. The buccaneers were acquitted, to the chagrin of the king of Spain, who had the English ambassador expelled from the court at Madrid on a seemingly trumped-up charge.
The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore.
After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases."
I still like print books. I have hundreds, but I can't afford all that I would like to have and damned sure couldn't store them and stay married.
Project Gutenberg was organized to digitize and save books whose copyrights have expired and have migrated into the public domain. Here is, for instance, the search result for "buccaneers" http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Buccaneers
Project Gutenberg main search page: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/
Google Books is a good spot to look as well: Here's the result of a search for A Buccaneer's Atlas, one of my favorites : https://books.google.com/books?id=Z...ose&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Basil Ringrose&f=false
Google Books search page: https://books.google.com/
The online "Archive of the Indies" in Seville: Portada del Archivo General de Indias - Archivo General de Indias - Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Dr E Lee Spence's website "Shipwrecks.com" : Shipwrecks.com
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's shipwreck database-there's not a lot there, but it may be what you are looking for:
https://www.boem.gov/Shipwrecks/
The US Coast Guard publishes something of a research guide that I have found useful: https://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBSHIPWRECKS/SHIPWRECKGUIDE.asp
The Indian River County Library has a nice collection. Here is the inventory there: http://www.irclibrary.org/pdf/shipwrecks1715.pdf
That's all I have time for at present. Please add to the list if you can.
Speaking of The Buccaneer's Atlas - here is a description of this most fascinating journal.
"On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero, or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded that the buccaneers be brought to trial. The derrotero was ordered to be brought to King Charles II, who apparently appreciated its great intelligence value. The buccaneers were acquitted, to the chagrin of the king of Spain, who had the English ambassador expelled from the court at Madrid on a seemingly trumped-up charge.
The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore.
After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases."
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