Article: 'DISCOVERY' CHARTS A HISTORY OF WORLD TRAVEL AS SUBJUGATION.(SPOTLIGHT)(Review)

Article: HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
The Washington Post;  February 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Isay in the preface, "and holding on to that at all costs." Shores of Discovery: How Expeditionaries Have Constructed the World, by Eric Leed (Basic, $25). Eric Leed distinguishes between ancient expeditionaries, who "seemed to value ...

Article: CHRONICLE OF `THE SLAVE TRADE': MIND-NUMBING BUT ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... experience since the beginning of time. Slaves helped build the pyramids and the Parthenon. In ``Shores of Discovery,'' Eric Leed argued that enslavement has actually meant more opportunity for some conquered peoples. But no one who reads ...

Article: `Slave Trade' explores pain, shame of 400 years
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 11, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... experience since the beginning of time. Slaves helped build the pyramids and the Parthenon. In "Shores of Discovery," Eric Leed argued that enslavement has actually meant more opportunity for some conquered peoples. But no one who reads ...

Article: Moving Lives: 20th Century Women's Travel Writing. .(Book Review)
Biography;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... formalized theories of travel and mobility in the early 1990s--Eric Leed, Mary Louise Pratt, and Dennis Porter, among others. Her ... exploration ... European women did not actively participate in discovery or in taking possession of other lands ... some women set ...

Article: PROVOKING `SLAVE TRADE' DETAILS ROUTINE HORRORS OF ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  December 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... human experience since the beginning of time. Slaves helped build the pyramids and the Parthenon. In Shores of Discovery, Eric Leed argued that enslavement has actually meant more opportunity for some conquered peoples. But no one who reads ...

Article: Discovery Communications to Offer Video Programming on the ...
PR Newswire;  May 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... SPRING, Md., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Communications today announced that content from Discovery's family of networks is now available ... offering includes programming from the Discovery Channel, the number one television and ...

Article: Discovery Communications Goes Beyond the TV Screen With ...
PR Newswire;  April 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Communications today announced ... its first broadband channels: Discovery Channel Beyond and Travel Channel ... advertisers and media buyers at Discovery's Upfront sales presentation ...