Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. ... With illustrations
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Five Years of a Hunters Life in the Far Interior of South Africa
Author: Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa
Author: Heinrich Barth
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean
Author: David Livingstone
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Category : Africa, South
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Category : Africa, South
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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The Personal Life of David Livingstone... Chiefly from His Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family, by William Garden Blaikie...
Author: William Garden Blaikie
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Personal Life of David Livingstone
Author: William Garden Blaikie
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The purpose of this work is to make the world better acquainted with the character of Livingstone. His discoveries and researches have been given to the public in his own books, but his modesty led him to say little in these of himself, and those who knew him best feel that little is known of the strength of his affections, the depth and purity of his devotion, or the intensity of his aspirations as a Christian missionary. The growth of his character and the providential shaping of his career are also matters of remarkable interest, of which not much has yet been made known. - Preface.
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The purpose of this work is to make the world better acquainted with the character of Livingstone. His discoveries and researches have been given to the public in his own books, but his modesty led him to say little in these of himself, and those who knew him best feel that little is known of the strength of his affections, the depth and purity of his devotion, or the intensity of his aspirations as a Christian missionary. The growth of his character and the providential shaping of his career are also matters of remarkable interest, of which not much has yet been made known. - Preface.
The Animal Estate
Author: Harriet Ritvo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.
Five Years of a Hunter's Life
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368831852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368831852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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