Author: J. WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elgin, Scotland Description
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Morayshire Described
Author: J. WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elgin, Scotland Description
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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A Fauna of the Moray Basin
Author: John Alexander Harvie-BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moray (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The History of the Province of Moray
Author: Lachlan ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moray (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The History of the Province of Moray
Author: Lachlan ShawPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385416663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
A History of Moray and Nairn
Author: Charles Joseph Galliari RampiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elginshire
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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William Dunbar
Author: Arthur H. DeRosierJr.Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318973X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar—now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society—to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.
History of the Province of Moray
Author: Lachlan ShawPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385409462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Moray and Nairn
Author: Charles MathesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elginshire (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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A Contribution to the Bibliography of Scottish Topography
Author: Sir Arthur MitchellPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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