Historical geography books

From the author of 1491 comes a deeply engaging new history that explores how Columbus' voyages brought back together...  Read More >>

The expedition described in this 1863 publication was the first to follow the Nile from its source in Lake Victoria....  Read More >>

Provides fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place  Read More >>

A critical translation and commentary on a work long regarded as Latin America's first novel, which proves that...  Read More >>

Provides fresh perspectives on colonialism, tourism, imagery, and the anthropology of place  Read More >>

From the author of 1491 comes a deeply engaging new history that explores how Columbus' voyages brought back together...  Read More >>

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...  Read More >>

The story of the 9th-century caliphal mission from Baghdad to discover the legendary barrier against the apocalyptic...  Read More >>

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John Anthony Caruso's The Appalachian Frontier, first published in 1959, captures the drama and sweep of a nation...  Read More >>

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"From the author of ""1491"" comes a deeply engaging new history that explores how Columbus' voyages brought back...  Read More >>

The Makers of Canada The Pioneers of Old Ontario. By W.L. Smith Illustrated by M. McGillivray  Read More >>

The geologist Joseph Beete Jukes (1811–1869) was sent on a mineral-prospecting mission to Newfoundland in 1839....  Read More >>

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there...  Read More >>

Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was a British botanist and one of the most influential scientific patrons of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there...  Read More >>

Resulting from the great explorer Henri Coudreau's travels in French Guyana during the 1880s, this first of two...  Read More >>

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there...  Read More >>

In this magisterial work, the great explorer Henri Coudreau describes French Guyana, its people, flora and fauna,...  Read More >>

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there...  Read More >>

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

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

The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there...  Read More >>

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>