Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, German Southwest
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, German Southwest
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, German Southwest
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"...the vast unexplored region before us will [not] yield its secrets to a single traveller, but rather [...] they will become known step by step through various successive discoveries." -Sir Francis Galton, The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa In The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1883), Sir Francis Galton describes an expedition he led to Southwest Africa in the 1850s. This expedition was a watershed event in the author's life. Because Galton was among the first to explore this South African territory, the effort earned him a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and launched his career as a scientist. This publication is a color replica of the original 1883 edition.
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
"...the vast unexplored region before us will [not] yield its secrets to a single traveller, but rather [...] they will become known step by step through various successive discoveries." -Sir Francis Galton, The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa In The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (1883), Sir Francis Galton describes an expedition he led to Southwest Africa in the 1850s. This expedition was a watershed event in the author's life. Because Galton was among the first to explore this South African territory, the effort earned him a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and launched his career as a scientist. This publication is a color replica of the original 1883 edition.
Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
Author: Francis Galton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A Life of Sir Francis Galton
Author: Nicholas W. Gillham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195143655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195143655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This vivid biography of the father of eugenics is also a superb portrait of science in the Victorian era. 10 halftones & 26 line illustrations.
Biometric State
Author: Keith Breckenridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316123944
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book, Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralized fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biometric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316123944
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book, Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralized fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biometric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism.
A Narrative of the Negro
Author: Leila Pendleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An early history of African Americans by an African American woman.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An early history of African Americans by an African American woman.
In Full Flight
Author: John Hylan Heminway
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"The revelatory account of a woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a heroic career that hid a dark wartime past"--
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1524732974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"The revelatory account of a woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a heroic career that hid a dark wartime past"--
The South African Geographical Journal
Author:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Vols. for 1932-1940 contain Cape Geographical Society. Report.
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Vols. for 1932-1940 contain Cape Geographical Society. Report.
Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa
Author: Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
It was on this expedition that Du Chiallu confirmed the existence of that "monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla," His work is one of the seminal pieces of early Central African exploration -- Buddenbrooks catalogue "Roam from Home"
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
It was on this expedition that Du Chiallu confirmed the existence of that "monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla," His work is one of the seminal pieces of early Central African exploration -- Buddenbrooks catalogue "Roam from Home"