Author: George McCall Theal
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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History of South Africa
Author: George McCall Theal
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography
Author: Sidney Mendelssohn
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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History of South Africa Since September, 1795
Author: George McCall Theal
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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History of South Africa Since September 1795. With Sixteen Maps and Charts
Author: George McCall Theal
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Westminster Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Scottish Geographical Magazine
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer
Author: Bernard E. Leake
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393233
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a 'homeland' for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393233
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a 'homeland' for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.
South Africa, Its People, Progress and Problems
Author: William Frederick Purvis
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Partition of Africa
Author: Sir John Scott Keltie
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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