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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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A Collection of Voyages: A voyage to New-Holland ... in the year 1699, by William Dampier
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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A Catalogue of Geography Voyages
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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A Catalogue of Geography, Voyages, Travels, Americana
Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages
Author: University of California, San Diego. University Library
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World
Author: John Pinkerton
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Naturalists at Sea
Author: Glyn Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030018073X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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DIVDIVTales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific/div/div
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030018073X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
DIVDIVTales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific/div/div
Asia in the Making of Europe
Author: Donald Frederick Lach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226467651
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226467651
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 757
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney for the Years 1888-[1910] ...
Author: Public Library of New South Wales
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives
Author: Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004343784
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004343784
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
William Dampier
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736420897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
William Dampier was an English explorer and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook. After impressing the Admiralty with his book A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace: The Buccaneers—Navigation in the Seventeenth Century—Features of the Vocational Life of the Early Mariner Dampier's Early Life—Campeché—He joins the Buccaneers, 1652-1681 Dampier's First Voyage round the World, 1681-1691 The Voyage of the "Roebuck," 1699-1701 The Voyage of the "St. George," 1702-1706-7 The Voyage With Woodes Rogers, 1708-1711
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736420897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
William Dampier was an English explorer and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook. After impressing the Admiralty with his book A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace: The Buccaneers—Navigation in the Seventeenth Century—Features of the Vocational Life of the Early Mariner Dampier's Early Life—Campeché—He joins the Buccaneers, 1652-1681 Dampier's First Voyage round the World, 1681-1691 The Voyage of the "Roebuck," 1699-1701 The Voyage of the "St. George," 1702-1706-7 The Voyage With Woodes Rogers, 1708-1711