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This work outlines the life of James Bruce of Kinnard, and Luigi Balugani and his relationship with James Bruce.
Author : Paul Hulton
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1000116980
This work outlines the life of James Bruce of Kinnard, and Luigi Balugani and his relationship with James Bruce.
Author : Paul Hulton
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1000153533
This work outlines the life of James Bruce of Kinnard, and Luigi Balugani and his relationship with James Bruce.
Author : Paul Hope Hulton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Blue Nile River Valley (Ethiopia and Sudan)
ISBN : 9780930606565
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004537511
As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.
Author : Jane Aptekar Reeve
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1728396263
This is an innovative biography about an adventurous, game-changing traveller in Africa during the West’s ‘Enlightenment’ period (when the American and French Revolutions occurred). James Bruce was not what he seemed to be. I can now reveal that although he was notorious in his own day for a variety of interesting reasons (including his alleged theft of his assistant’s art-work), he was basically an espionage agent working with a clique of powerful, mostly British, persons whose secret agenda was: to eradicate slaving. Bruce undertook a ‘subversive’ mission to investigate slave trafficking across the Mediterranean and Red Seas as well as the Atlantic in order to support his friends’ drive to destroy the principal source of their own country’s wealth. This was achieved in 1807. Like Bruce himself, in my book I address neglected aspects of the ancient habit of slavery and the related abuse of —particularly —women. Bruce’s Travels (1790) is a delightful —although massive —read. Therefore I sketch the geo-historical and faith background to Bruce’s work, convey the ‘feel’ of his book, and add to the known facts of his life a great deal of newly discovered material. This includes the international range of Bruce’s friends and collaborators, from Rome to Cairo to Bethlehem in the newly constituted U.S.A. Change is agonisingly slow to take hold. It was possibly because Bruce ‘only’ wrote about Africa that he has been trivialised, and his biography has never previously been fully responsibly researched.
Author : Ray Desmond
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1000124495
Over the past four centuries botanists and gardeners in the British Isles have gathered, maintained and propagated many varying species of plants. Their work has been documented in innumerable books and articles which are often difficult to trace. The Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists represents a time-saving reference source for those who wish to discover more about the lives and achievements of the horticulturalists listed. The dictionary's utility comes not only from indicating the major publications of the named authors, but also the location of their herbaria and manuscripts.; The previous 1977 edition of the Dictionary has for many years been a much used source of information for botanists, botanic artists and archivists. In this revised edition the scope has been expanded to include among its 13,000 entries flower painters in addition to botanical artists over 1400 entries and, for the first time, garden designers.; Finally the Dictionary should have international appeal since so many botanists and gardeners worked on collective plants overseas, in particular in North America and the British Commonwealth.; Each entry gives, wherever possible, details of dates and places of birth and death, educational qualifications, professional posts, honours and awards, publications, location of plant collections, manuscripts, drawings and portraits. Its main function, however, is to provide further biographical references to books and periodicals. Comprehensive classified indices facilitate access by professions and activities, countries, and plant interests.
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Botany
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Botany
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Author : L. C. Rookmaaker
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1989-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9061918677
The 18th century witnessed a new interest in African animals. Research was undertaken at the Cape of Good Hope by explorers whose books, manuscripts and drawings concerning mammals and birds are listed and discussed within this text.;This text gives details on four collections of 300 mammal and bird drawings connected with Levaillant's research. Many examples are illustrated. The zoological contents of the material left by these seven explorers are analyzed for all mammals and birds emphasizing the history, taxonomy, nomenclature and zoogeography.
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1992
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