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The book "" A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (Volume 8) , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

The book "" A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (Volume 7) , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land. In determining upon an era for the commencement of this work, Kerr was led, from a consideration of the accidental discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians in the ninth century, to adopt that period as the beginning of the series, both because the commencement of modern maritime discovery took place during the reign of a British sovereign, and because we derive the earliest written accounts of any of these discoveries from the pen of that excellent prince. It is true that the first accidental discovery of Iceland appears to have been made in 861, eleven years before the accession of Alfred to the throne; yet, as the actual colonization of that island did not take place till the year 878, the seventh of his glorious reign, we have been induced to distinguish the actual commencement of maritime discovery by the modern European nations as coinciding with his era.

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

Kerr's Voyages Series 3 focuses on the great circumnavigations of the globe, and includes the lesser known circumnavigations of Sir Thomas Candish, Oliver van Noort, Jacques Le Maire, Jacques Le Hermite, Captain John Cooke and William Funnell amongst others, as well as the acclaimed voyages of Drake and Magellan.

Architect Robert Kerr (1823-1904) gives a detailed account of the building of 'stately homes' in this work, published in 1864. He explains the history of the 'gentleman's house' and discusses the building options down to the smallest pantry, making this work a comprehensive guide to mid-Victorian aspirational home building.