#Age of Exploration

[karolinastast]

lino cut series, inspired by photos of the Trans - Antarctic expedition, lead by Sir Ernest Shackleton, photographed by Frank Hurley

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[illustratus]

[die-droste]

i just made this and it already looks fried

[historynerdj2]

History memes #55

[the-golden-vanity]

Figurehead of replica 17th century full-rigged pinnace Kalmar Nyckel at her dock on the Christina River, 1/4/25.

[babeluda]

Hey Terror girlies, look what I found!

This 1943 book by captain — pardon me, commander — De Gerlache recounts his and his crew's voyage and wintering in Antarctica aboard the ship Belgica (1897), which became icebound during an exploration expedition.

This whole escapade is the reason why Belgium gets to have a South Pole research station, by the by.

Anyway no one got eaten, but they did have to manually break a canal in the ice to get free.

[tootditoot]

How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Here's this version with a little pirate on the prow!

[nickysfacts]

It’s amazing how many meanings and uses one small sea shell can have!

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[queers4years]

Indigenous Hawaiians really had a good system going: wake up reaaally early and do most of the days work while it's cool and by the time the sun was up and it got hot the work was done and you're free to surf and socialize. I wish the white people realized they themselves could work smarter and not harder and get time to relax. Instead of calling Hawaiians lazy (and being genocidal about it)

[spacenoirdetective]

"Vasco Da Gama in Africa" by Severino Baraldi, 1978

[akan-institute]

Woya or Woyaya - To go on (a journey). Here is the origin of the word, voyage.

There is a reason, the English language is called Poto Kasa by our ancestors. The blended language. Composed from already existing languages.

[illustratus]

Rhinoceros by Albrecht Dürer

[die-droste]

[apenitentialprayer]

By the seventeenth century this symbolic world had been rendered almost completely unintelligible. There were a number of reasons for this. One important factor was the Protestant reformation: the reformers' attacks on allegorical readings of scripture; the Protestant principle of sola scriptura which denied the possibility of theological truths being represented in nature; an iconoclasm which privileged word over image. Other factors also played a role, including the vast additions to catalogs of creatures that resulted from the discovery of the New World. For these new creatures there were no traditional symbolic associations. Another relevant consideration was the advent of printing, and the growth in literacy which accompanied it. These developments promoted the elevation of written word over visual symbol.

- Peter Harrison ("Linnaeus as the Second Adam? Taxonomy and the Religious Vocation")

[judgeitbyitscover]

Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh

Cover art by Michael Whelan

DAW Books, October 1985

They named him Thorn. They told him he was their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fighters, the defenders.

Thorn knew that his difference was somehow very important -- but not important enough to prevent murderous conspiracies against him, against his protector, against his cast, and perhaps against the peace of the world. But when the crunch came, when Thorn finally learned what his true role in life was to be, that on him might hang the future of two worlds, then he had to stand alone to justify his very existence.