Author: Joseph Bryant
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. His Voyages, Discoveries, and Fortunes
Author: Joseph Bryant
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.
Author: Joseph Bryant
Publisher: London : Epworth Press
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Publisher: London : Epworth Press
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Matthew Flinders
Author: Thea Stanley Hughes
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Biography with notes on various journeys of exploration.
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Biography with notes on various journeys of exploration.
Flinders Petrie
Author: Margaret S. Drower
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299146235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Flinders Petrie has been called the “Father of Modern Egyptology”—and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie’s in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie’s own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie’s important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299146235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Flinders Petrie has been called the “Father of Modern Egyptology”—and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie’s in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie’s own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie’s important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into.
Matthew Flinders Private Journal from 17 December 1803 at Isle de France to 10 July 1814 at London
Author: Matthew Flinders
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Flinders begins his journal at the time of his landfall on Mauritius in December 1803, and the subsequent entries describe his six years of imprisonment by the French, his eventual return to England and the events of his later life up until nine days before his death in July 1814.
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Flinders begins his journal at the time of his landfall on Mauritius in December 1803, and the subsequent entries describe his six years of imprisonment by the French, his eventual return to England and the events of his later life up until nine days before his death in July 1814.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.
Author: Sir Ernest Scott
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Australian Explorers by Sea, Land, and Air, 1788-1988
Author: Ian Francis McLaren
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Victorian History and Politics
Author: Joanna Monie
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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