Historical geography books

The success which attended the publication in this Series of Illustrated Works of A Woman's Journey round the World,...  Read More >>

Suicide, depression, eating disorders, and other mental health illnesses have dramatically increased among adolescents...  Read More >>

Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the...  Read More >>

"""This book is not his biography but is about Ellicott's most lengthy and difficult survey, the southern boundary...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as...  Read More >>

In 1819, William Smith, with a general cargo from Montevideo to Valparaiso, sailed further south round Cape Horn...  Read More >>

This volume provides an English translation of The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville . It contains...  Read More >>

This is the first of a pair of volumes publishing the full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert...  Read More >>

In the Autumn of 1854 Dr John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company astonished the world with the first news of the fate...  Read More >>

Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism...  Read More >>

In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambra, during which a party,...  Read More >>

In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored...  Read More >>

"This book magnifies only one instance of Iran's geopolitical role in the Persian Gulf in the interim period between...  Read More >>

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early...  Read More >>

Published in Britain in 1885, this is an account of two late nineteenth-century Arctic rescue missions by American...  Read More >>

Youghal is the twenty-seventh in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Series, which assembles topographical documentations...  Read More >>

I sailed from Otaheite on the 4th of April 1789, having on board 1015 fine bread-fruit plants, besides many other...  Read More >>

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In diesem Buch aus dem Jahre 1890 erzahlt Richard Hakluyt die spannende Geschichte aller Versuche, die Nordwestpassage...  Read More >>

Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America s International Power""  Read More >>

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

Bestselling children's author Liam Saxon is proud to presents TWO BOOKS IN ONE! Introducing A Smart Kids Guide...  Read More >>

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