The Journal of John Mayne
Author : John Mayne
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Europe
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Author : John Mayne
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Europe
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Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781012016
A collection of anecdotes for each day of the year on the subject of travel and exploration from Charles Darwin, Michael Palin, Evelyn Waugh, and others. With an emphasis on the period 1750–1950—the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing—this anthology features excerpts that convey men and women’s experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers such as Captains Cook and Scott to modern travel writers journeying through the contemporary world, from people who pushed back the boundaries of geographical knowledge to people who wrote about what they did on their summer holidays. The book includes an introduction, explanatory notes and mini-biographies of all the contributors, including: Gertrude Bell (woman traveller in the Middle East) James Boswell (travels in Scotland and the Hebrides) William Cobbett (Rural Rides through England) Christopher Columbus (journals of his voyages to America) Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle) Captain James Cook (voyages in the Pacific) Washington Irving (American writer travelled in Europe in first decades of nineteenth century) Edward Lear (landscape painter and nonsense writer produced journals of his travels in Greece, Corsica, Near East etc) Lewis & Clark (journals of famous journey of American exploration) William Morris (wrote a journal of a trip to Iceland in 1870s) Michael Palin (a Python abroad) Mungo Park (African explorer in early nineteenth century) Captain Robert Falcon Scott (doomed journey to South Pole) Evelyn Waugh (diaries of 1930s travels in Mediterranean and beyond) William John Wills (explorer of Australia)
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Page : 756 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Bibliography
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Author : J. T. Studley
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Hunting
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Author :
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Books
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Author : Detroit Public Library
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Arthur Irwin Dasent
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Page : 740 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Joseph Conway
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Americans
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : William Foster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 131702673X
An account of the East India Company's fourth voyage; with an appendix containing William Revett's 1609 account of the Seychelles, and reports on other places by merchants and seamen of the same period. Appendices: A. William Revett's account of the Seychelles. B. William Revett's narrative of events at Aden, his voyage to Mocha, etc. C. Captain Sharpeigh's account of events at Aden and Mocha, of the shipwreck, and of his subsequent journey to Agra. D. William Finch's description of Ma?ndu? and Gwalior. E. Coen's narrative of the visit of the Darling to Amboyna and Ceram. F. The fight at Patani and death of Jourdain. "Bibliography (by Basil H. Soulsby)": p. [375]-384. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1905.