Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary ebook

by John Kendrick

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Malaspina advised the king that this could be achieved only if all the present ministers were dismissed and replaced with a slate of Malaspina's choosing who would back his visionary ideas. At Napoleon's urging he was released after eight years and exiled to Italy.

Kendrick tells Malaspina's story with grace and verve, skilfully including just . As Kendrick clearly demonstrates, the name of Alejandro Malaspina deserves to be added to the pantheon of great European sea explorers.

Kendrick tells Malaspina's story with grace and verve, skilfully including just enough information about international events to make the main narrative fully comprehensible. International Journal of Maritime History "First-rate. The American Neptune.

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With this book John Kendrick has filled what has long been a conspicuous gap in the study of European exploration in the age of the Enlightenment by. .

While other major explorers of this period such as Cook and Laperouse have received extensive biographical treatment Malaspina has languished in relative obscurity.

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Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary. McGill-Queen's Press. Kendrick, John (2003). Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary. online at Google Books. p. 27. ^ Dario Manfredi, Il Viaggio Attorno al Mondo di Malaspina con la Fregata di . Astrea, 1786–1788, Memorie della Accademia Lunigianese di Scienze, La Spezia, 1988. 52. ISBN 0-7735-2652-8. Cutter, Donald C. (1991). Malaspina & Galiano: Spanish Voyages to the Northwest Coast, 1791 & 1792.

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John Kendrick Alejandro Malaspina was born in 1754 in the town of Mulazzo, in the tiny enclave of Lunigiana on the northwest coast of Italy.

Book Description: Malaspina arrived in Spain with a scientific background and an ardent interest in the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Alejandro Malaspina was born in 1754 in the town of Mulazzo, in the tiny enclave of Lunigiana on the northwest coast of Italy. He was a younger son of the Marquis Carlo Morelo Malaspina, a rank that did not bring with it great wealth or fame.

Alejandro Malaspina : Portrait of a Visionary. The thirst for knowledge and adventure have always been at the forefront of human imagination. In this engrossing tale John Kendrick takes us on a voyage across the Pacific via the Philippines, New Zealand, the infant British colony at Sydney Cove, and the Tonga Islands, chronicling the life of Alejandro Malaspina, an 18th-century Italian navigator in the service of Spain. interest in the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

Malaspina arrived in Spain with a scientific background and an ardent interest in the philosophy of the Enlightenment. A skilled navigator, the Pacific voyage on which he sailed in 1789 was the last and most important of his career - a five-year scientific and political examination of the Spanish colonies in the Americas and the Philippines. He appraised the British colony at Sydney Cove and Tonga, allowing him to compare life at a place almost untouched by European contact with the situation in the colonies. Malaspina eventually returned to Spain, where he was received by King Charles IV. He was commissioned to produce a work covering all aspects of his studies that would establish Spain's reputation as a modern enlightened state. Malaspina advised the King that this could be achieved only if he dismissed all of his ministers and replaced them with a slate of Malaspina's choosing who would back his visionary ideas. This seemingly naive proposal resulted in a unanimous vote by the council that his plan was false, seditious, and injurious to the sovereignty of Their Majesties, and he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the fortress of San Antón. At the urging of Napoleon he was released after eight years and exiled to Italy, where he died in 1810, just as the revolts in the Americas were starting, as he had predicted. Using Malaspina's writings, including the journal of his great voyage and his personal letters, John Kendrick makes the life of this extraordinary man available for the first time in English.