Author : John Compton Pyne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN : 9789400602601
A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West's fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians.
Author : John Compton Pyne
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 9789400602601
A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West's fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians.
Author : John Compton Pyne
Publisher : Iranian Studies
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789087282622
A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West?s fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ?orientalism? and colonialism, and for historians.
Author : Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2012-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299201937
The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.
Author : Richard E. Byrd
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447424109
The harrowing and heartfelt account of an adventurer's desire to feel true peace and isolation. Richard E. Byrd chose to stay alone in the Antarctic over the long dark nights of Antarctic winter. The following story details his battle with monoxide poisoning, depression and utter despair. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : E. E. Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Essex (England)
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Burke
Publisher : London : Harrison
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Genealogy
ISBN :
Author : Richard Harold St. Maur
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1902
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Max Binheim
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 1928
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN :
Author : King William's College, Castletown
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Castletown (Isle of Man)
ISBN :
