Résultats pour "The Voyage" dans Histoire

Notre histoire est européenne. S'arrêter face au trône de Charlemagne, dans la cathédrale d'Aix-la-Chapelle, pour rêver d'un empire qui fonda l'Europe. Se promener dans les rues de Nuremberg, de Bruges, de Gênes pour raconter la résurrection des villes et l'invention de l'économie, au Moyen Âge. Arpenter les falaises de Sagres, dans le sud du Portugal, pour imaginer le prince Henri le Navigateur guettant à l'horizon le retour des caravelles. Retrouver, en Pologne, le chanoine Copernic, qui chamboula notre rapport à l'univers.

I hate every wave of the ocean', the seasick Charles Darwin wrote to his family during his five-year voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle. It was this world-wide journey, however, that launched the scientists career.

You'll be awe-inspired by the heroic efforts of the crew of the Endurance, a ship that battled its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice while ironically only a day's sail from its destination.

In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.

Podcast qui explorent l’histoire de l’Afrique noire à travers ses civilisations, ses empires, ses cultures et ses grandes étapes. les voyage à travers les régions, les peuples et les époques qui ont façonné le continent.

Podcast qui explorent l’histoire de l’Afrique noire à travers ses civilisations, ses empires, ses cultures et ses grandes étapes. les voyage à travers les régions, les peuples et les époques qui ont façonné le continent.

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: The North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds in the grip of "Arctic Fever." The ship sailed into uncharted seas, but soon was trapped in pack ice. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the hull was breached. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew abandoned the ship.

Audie Award, History/Biography, 2016. On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers, as well as those who struggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail.

Pigafetta's book on Magellan’s travels is an engaging travel narrative honoring the legendary explorer. But it is much more: an accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation of the globe. Pifagetta describes the peoples, countries, goods, and even the languages that were spoken in every area.

On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Scott's base at Cape Evans, via the Pole. However, despite the best planning, the ship succumbs to the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, and is subjected to months of uncontrollable drifting before its crew makes a scramble for Elephant Island, where they battle constant cold and starvation.

Tout sur cette dinguerie qu'est la première circumnavigation. Ici on parle en détente et on kiffe ce petit bout d'histoire dont je pourrais parler pendant des heures.Les ragots de cette aventure incroyable où les Portugais et les Espagnols se clashent dans une course aux épices, les détails morbides sur la vie difficile à bord de petites nefs lancées sur les océans au 16ème siècle, les informations croustillantes sur les jeux de pouvoir à l'oeuvre entre les différents acteurs de cette épopée...Bienvenue dans le voyage de Magellan ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy ...

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides. Travelling between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer treks through Yemen, the Empty Quarter, Oman, and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of this most inhospitable terrain. He was the first European ever to set eyes on the dunes and wadis of these deserts.

These are the words of Christopher Columbus - the record of his first voyage to America. His private journal from the trip was lost, but not before being studied and condensed by later writers like Spanish historian and Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas, whose abridgement has been changed to first person perspective for this production (Columbus' actual words were often included by the friar). The result is a personal record of an enterprise which changed the whole face of history.

Peu de gens connaissent vraiment le rôle de l'Irak dans la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce mémoire explore la vie et le devoir de Frank Wooten, un Américain, servant comme officier britannique dans le Corps mésopotamien des mitrailleuses à moteur. Racontant la vie quotidienne de Frank sur le front, ses fonctions tout au long de la guerre et les personnes incroyables qu'il a rencontrées en cours de route, Voyage dans l'Eden est un livre parfait pour quiconque s'intéresse aux histoires moins connues de la Première Guerre mondiale.

This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region.

From the muddy banks of Buffalo Bayou to the gleaming towers of a global metropolis, Houston’s story is one of ambition, transformation, and endurance.

Herodotus, the fifth-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India—the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. His only companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus. In his journey across continents, Kapuscinski discovers his life's work: to understand and describe the non-Western world, in all its variety, through his still-virginal Western eyes.

Bonjour bonjour,Pour la petite mise en contexte : je travaille en tant que workaway dans une auberge de femmes à Rio de Janeiro, j'ai donc la chance de voir arriver et repartir toutes sortes de voyageuses.Ces femmes ont toutes des itinéraires, des raisons de voyager et des façons de s'organiser très différentes. Je me suis découvert une passion à les écouter, et il me paraissait inconcevable de ne pas garder une trace du son de leur voix et de leurs histoires.En espérant que cela vous fasse voyager ou vous donne l'envie de vous lancer. Bonne écoute.Elisa Hébergé par Acast. Visitez ...

Ian Moore is a stand-up comedian in the UK and a husband, father of three boys, farmhand and chutney-maker in France. He is a mod in both walks of life and most of his time is spent travelling grumpily between the two. Comedian, mod and professional grump Ian Moore has had enough. Tired of being unable to park anywhere near his cramped house in a noisy town he doesn’t like, he hatches a plan to move his wife and young son to a remote corner of the Loire Valley in search of serenity and space.

Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New Jersey. Dave Eggers tells it straight: Illinois is Number 1. Louise Erdrich loses her bikini top in North Dakota. Jonathan Franzen gets waylaid by New York's publicist...and personal attorney...and historian...and geologist. John Hodgman explains why there is no such thing as a "Massachusettsean."