History of other lands books

Child of the Church of Scotland and product of the Scottish Enlightenment, John Lindsay was an ordained minister...  Read More >>

It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it. Stefan grows...  Read More >>

Schwatka's search sledging in the arctic in quest of the Franklin records This book, Schwatka's search, by William...  Read More >>

Colby provides new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping...  Read More >>

This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and...  Read More >>

This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than...  Read More >>

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A century after Amundsen's triumph and Scott's tragedy, our fascination with Antarctica remains as acute as ever....  Read More >>

Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? From Far and Wide...  Read More >>

Beginning in 1777, when William Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in Tahiti with Captain Cook, this title charts...  Read More >>

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Steel Calvary is the story of the transformation of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured...  Read More >>

Offers an account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status that has figured in European...  Read More >>

A rich and astounding collection of stories transcribed directly from the Inuit of Greenland in the 1930s  Read More >>

This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs,...  Read More >>

This study provides a solid background for understanding nineteenth-century Galicia as the historic Piedmont of...  Read More >>

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A biography of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), famous historian, scholar, theologian and statesman.  Read More >>

The true story of the men who sought - and found - a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the far north. From...  Read More >>

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the US Army just as the Pentagon...  Read More >>

This second edition provides a complete A-Z of Antarctica. The approximately 30,000 entries include geographical...  Read More >>

At its height in the first half of the seventeenth century, the Dutch West India Company controlled a scattered...  Read More >>

Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? From Far and Wide...  Read More >>

Over the last half of nineteenth and first half of twentieth centuries, rising secular liberalism led many Catholic...  Read More >>

Though now contested by later explorers, Robert Edwin Peary's trek to the North Pole in 1908 is arguably the first...  Read More >>