Author: Uno von TroilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the natural history of the country, antiquities, manners and customs of the inhabitants
Author: Uno von TroilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 2002
Book Description
Travels of Learning
Author: Ana SimõesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401735840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This volume offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological traveling and takes the viewpoint of the European peripheries, including case studies of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. It contributes to the clarification of mechanisms of appropriation of scientific ideas, instruments, practices and of technological expertise. It is of interest to scholars and students of history and philosophy of science and technology, cultural and social history, science, technology and society studies.
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Author: Royal geographical society librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society, May, 1865
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Grande-Bretagne). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Letters on Iceland
Author: Uno von TroilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
