R. M. Ballantyne: a Bibliography of First Editions
Author : Eric Quayle
Publisher : London : Dawsons
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Eric Quayle
Publisher : London : Dawsons
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : London : T. Nelson
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1135636567
First published in 1996. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European people and places. In the exotic, uncomplicated and malleable settings of stories like Robinson Crusoe, they make it possible to imagine, and to naturalise and normalise, identities that might seem implausible closer to home. This book discusses the geography of literature and looking at where adventure stories chart colonies and empires, projecting European geographical fantasies onto non-European, real geographies, including the Americas, Africa and Australasia.
Author : Jen Hill
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791479463
Bridging historical and literary studies, White Horizon explores the importance of the Arctic to British understandings of masculine identity, the nation, and the rapidly expanding British Empire in the nineteenth century. Well before Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, polar space had come to represent the limit of both empire and human experience. Using a variety of texts, from explorers' accounts to boys' adventure fiction, as well as provocative and fresh readings of the works of Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins, Jen H ill illustrates the function of Arctic space in the nineteenth-century British social imagination, arguing that the desolate north was imagined as a "pure" space, a conveniently blank page on which to write narratives of Arctic exploration that both furthered and critiqued British imperialism.
Author : Rob David
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526121506
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1526119587
This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
Author : Philippa Bernard
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This companion sets out to provide essential information required by those who sell secondhand books and also by those who buy them. There are 450 entries which include explanations of the technical terms used in the description of books. Printing, illustration and binding are all covered.
Author : Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1990-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802034601
These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : LA CASE Books
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
'The Cannibal Islands' is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballantyne uses detailed descriptions of the customs and habits of those who Captain Cook encountered to flesh out the adventures of the famous explorer. Ballantyne is particularly fascinated by the habit of cannibalism practised by some of the people that Cook encountered. Very much of it's time, this is nevertheless a fascinating and insightful read.