Historical geography books

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An examination of the six men and one woman who set out to find the source of the White Nile in the nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor...  Read More >>

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The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to,...  Read More >>

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Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost...  Read More >>

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Compendio de escritos originales de Cristobal Colon en sus primeros cuatro viajes al nuevo continente, y su testamento....  Read More >>

The German surgeon Emil Bessels (1847–88) was head of the scientific team on the American-sponsored Polaris Expedition...  Read More >>

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Full texts of all letters, together with translations of those in German, French and Italian. This volume covers...  Read More >>

A social and economic history of one of the oldest Ukrainian settlements in Western Canada.  Read More >>

<p>In Acts of Occupation, historians Cavell and Noakes deliverthe engrossing story of Canada's early days of Arctic...  Read More >>

In addition to the main text, with introduction and notes, there is 'added Burnell's narrative of his adventures...  Read More >>

Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 101. The Paris text (French, with translation), the...  Read More >>

The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.1505-1508....  Read More >>

Various translators, especially Edward Bullough and N. Volkov. The pagination of this and the following volume (Second...  Read More >>

Follows on from Second Series 83, with continuous main pagination. Includes documents relating to the Munster plantation...  Read More >>

Containing: (i) 'Richard Hakluyt, by J. A. Williamson, D.Lit.', (ii) 'Samuel Purchas, by Sir William Foster, C.I.E.'...  Read More >>

New edition, with introduction and notes; for the previous edition, by Sir Clements Markham, see First Series 56...  Read More >>

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1939.  Read More >>

Translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett, and edited by Sir Charles...  Read More >>

The text of British Library Egerton MS 1982, with an essay on the cosmographical ideas of Mandeville's day by E....  Read More >>