...Engel Sluiter Amerigo Vespucci. Pilot Major . By Pohl Frederick J. . ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1944 . Pp. x , 249 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

...Martin Torodash Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire. By Lamb Ursula . Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum , 1995 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Notes , xv , 243 pp. Cloth . $79.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The volume under...

... by Miguel López de Legazpi laid the foundations for Spanish colonial rule in Southeast Asia and the transpacific galleon trade. For Reséndez, this is a history of twin triumphs against odds. The first triumph is the Afro-Portuguese pilot Lope Martín's ascendancy through the ranks of maritime workers...

... in 1910 to the entrenchment of civil air travel during the post–World War II era. Soland provides keen analysis of the political and cultural context, influences, and ramifications of aviation. He argues that Mexican pilots and political leaders embraced indigenismo in the marketing of planes...

..., Indigenous peoples in Brazil materially shaped aviation, sometimes working with state agents and at other times creating their own infrastructure, such as landing fields, and training pilots among their youth. Indigenous peoples also resisted or mediated the development of aviation, often fighting against...

... worked hard to tie airplanes to national identity and patriotism. Hiatt effectively uses the story of pilot Alejandro Velasco Astete, a Quechua speaker and native of Cuzco, to demonstrate how technology mediated the indigenista vision for a central role for the city of Cuzco. In 1925 Velasco Astete...

... Cosmographía is written in dialogue form—an ancient technique. There are two questioners who are answered by Medina. One of the questioners, a pilot, is interested in technical matters (tides, altitudes of stars, distance, direction, etc.); the other, an educated layman or licenciado , is more philosophical...

... (1916 – 2004) was a Tuskegee Airman, one of the African American pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps who distinguished themselves during World War II by never losing a single bomber to enemy fighters while flying escort missions over Europe. Richardson was one of the approximately four hundred pilots who...

... of the difficulty they presented in locating information on a specific subject. With the appearance of the Guide for 1829, the first of three projected volumes in a pilot series to cover the years 1847 and 1875 as well, the potential for investigation into these archives has been greatly expanded. The Guide...

... India , from the account of an unknown Genoese pilot with Magellan’s fleet, and from the Deroteiro of another pilot, probably Francisco Albo. Though the captaingeneral did not survive to tell his own tale, there is fortunately no dearth of contemporary accounts. Drawing from these, Sanderlin begins...

... an unknown dying pilot are two examples—have recently had little currency in the English-speaking world. In Spain, however, for reasons that invite analysis, such legends as that of the unknown pilot and the prediscovery of America continue to fascinate some scholars; an example is Juan Manzano y Manzano's...

... the five caravels, the avería (insurance), and four months’ advance pay for the pilots. 5 During the first five months of 1498, he took an active part in outfitting the fleet, and at various times we find him acting as paymaster. The armada sailed on May 30. It consisted of six ships. Mariño went...

... rightly considered Columbus’s estimate of the earth’s circumference incorrect, and the future admiral demanded a very high price. Manzano hints, without quite saying so, that he believes the story of the anonymous pilot who reportedly crossed the Atlantic a decade before Columbus, and he promises...

... District’s population. In contrast, only 33 percent five in the airplane-shaped planned city known as “Pilot Plan.” He documents for city planners and architects anywhere the superficiality of planning that places emphasis on form alone, leaving social processes and their nonphysical purposes to one side...

... as wage laborers on nearby ranches. Although the studies commissioned by the pilot project portrayed the population as disorganized and miserable, Arrieta Fernández found just the opposite: a rich ceremonial life, households bound to one another by complex relations of reciprocity and mutual support...

... of his approach. Columbus was a self-educated artisan from a cultural backwater. Since he had never piloted a ship, his role in promoting his enterprise was that of speculator and, later, a kind of CEO. As for the issue of the mysterious navigator who allegedly showed Columbus his route, the author...

..., and assuming the ability to sign documents as a minimum test of literacy, Pérez-Mallaína found that 100 percent of the high command of the fleets, 83 percent of the shipowners and captains, and 74 percent of the pilots met that test, of the sailors and ship's boys, only 21 percent could sign their names...

... and the sea remained its lifeline to the rest of New Spain. Beginning in 1774, Martínez made annual voyages to California on the supply vessels that headed north from San Blas, delivering food and manufactured goods and transporting mail and passengers in both directions. Martínez sailed first as second pilot...

... work (“Argos and Polyphemus: Eyes on the New World Five Hundred Years Ago and Now,” in Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire , 1995) before her death on August 8, 1996, Ursula Schaefer Lamb was still engaged with the epistemological question that had guided her long and productive...

...Jeremiah F. Epstein This useful monograph is an extension of the author’s pilot study, published in 1938. It includes data from 316 new specimens that were recorded between 1961 and 1963. The concern is primarily with stone axes which occur only in the ceramic periods. These are divided...