Author: Archer Philip Crouch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"A portion of a diary kept during a cable-laying expedition down the west coast of Africa, starting from ... Bathurst on the river Gambia ... and terminating at the Portuguese town of St Paul de Loanda." -- [p.vii].
On a Surf-bound Coast; Or, Cable-laying in the African Tropics
Author: Archer Philip Crouch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"A portion of a diary kept during a cable-laying expedition down the west coast of Africa, starting from ... Bathurst on the river Gambia ... and terminating at the Portuguese town of St Paul de Loanda." -- [p.vii].
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"A portion of a diary kept during a cable-laying expedition down the west coast of Africa, starting from ... Bathurst on the river Gambia ... and terminating at the Portuguese town of St Paul de Loanda." -- [p.vii].
Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments, Worcester, 1889
Author: Worcester Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Traveller's Daybook
Author: Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857899287
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
A masterly anthology of extracts from the journals and writings of travelers, explorers, and adventurers throughout history, taking the reader on one unforgettable journey for each day of the year Inviting readers to cross ocean, desert, mountain, and ice-cap in the company of the world's greatest explorers, wanderers, and writers, this day-by-day anthology of travel writing ranges widely across time as well as place: from Christopher Columbus's "discovery" of the West Indies in 1492 to Anton Chekhov's journey through Siberia in the 19th century and on to Wilfred Thesiger's wanderings in Arabia's "empty quarter" in the 1940s. Each quoted extract is accompanied by a brief commentary that introduces the writer and establishes the context of the excerpt, while integrated paintings and black and white etchings chime with the period of the chosen extracts. The itinerary offers the astonishment of the 17th-century diarist John Evelyn on beholding the size of women's shoes in Venice; the stoic courage of Captain Scott facing death at 40 degrees below zero; the exasperation of Dylan Thomas at finding himself in a "stifflipped, liverish, British Guest House in puking Abadan;" and the philosophical introspection of Fridtjof Nansen as he drifts in an "interminable and rigid world" of Arctic ice. Readers will find Napoleon's travel tips to his niece, a flight over Germany with Hitler, and an ex-pat dinner in Morocco where human blood is served from the fridge by the pint. Covering the whole calendar, including leap years, these 366 journeys are by turn lyrical, witty, tragic, and bizarre—but always entertaining.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 0857899287
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
A masterly anthology of extracts from the journals and writings of travelers, explorers, and adventurers throughout history, taking the reader on one unforgettable journey for each day of the year Inviting readers to cross ocean, desert, mountain, and ice-cap in the company of the world's greatest explorers, wanderers, and writers, this day-by-day anthology of travel writing ranges widely across time as well as place: from Christopher Columbus's "discovery" of the West Indies in 1492 to Anton Chekhov's journey through Siberia in the 19th century and on to Wilfred Thesiger's wanderings in Arabia's "empty quarter" in the 1940s. Each quoted extract is accompanied by a brief commentary that introduces the writer and establishes the context of the excerpt, while integrated paintings and black and white etchings chime with the period of the chosen extracts. The itinerary offers the astonishment of the 17th-century diarist John Evelyn on beholding the size of women's shoes in Venice; the stoic courage of Captain Scott facing death at 40 degrees below zero; the exasperation of Dylan Thomas at finding himself in a "stifflipped, liverish, British Guest House in puking Abadan;" and the philosophical introspection of Fridtjof Nansen as he drifts in an "interminable and rigid world" of Arctic ice. Readers will find Napoleon's travel tips to his niece, a flight over Germany with Hitler, and an ex-pat dinner in Morocco where human blood is served from the fridge by the pint. Covering the whole calendar, including leap years, these 366 journeys are by turn lyrical, witty, tragic, and bizarre—but always entertaining.
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1885-1890
Author: George Knottesford Fortescue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
A Subject Index of Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1880-[95]: 1885-1890
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice
Author: Sir John Ambrose Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric transformers
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric transformers
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Drum Armatures and Commutators (theory and Practice)
Author: F. Marten Weymouth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armatures
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armatures
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Electrician Electrical Trades Directory and Handbook
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Electric industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Magnetic Induction in Iron and Other Metals
Author: Sir Jams Alfred Ewing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description