Author: Edward WhymperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper
Author: Edward WhymperTravels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator
Author: Edward WhymperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andes
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Author: Edward WhymperPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871208541
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator
Author: Edward WhymperPublisher: London: J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Andes
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
-- ---Supplementary appendix; by Edward Whymper. London, J. Murray, 1891. 147 p. illus. 24 cm.
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper
Author: Edward WhymperTriumph and Tragedy
Author: Emil HenryPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1848765789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Triumph and Tragedy: the Life of Edward Whymper is an engrossing account of the extraordinary life of Edward Whymper (1840-1911), the best known but perhaps least understood mountain climber of the 19th century. Acclaimed as the first to scale the Matterhorn, Whymper personifies the spirited amateurism of the Golden Age of Mountaineering (1854-1865).Triumph and Tragedy accompanies a young but supremely confident Whymper on exhilarating ascents and narrow escapes amid beautiful, often dangerous Alpine peaks. The book lays bare the trauma of his companions’ deaths on the Matterhorn, and empathizes with him during the intense pressures of the accident’s aftermath. Emil Henry’s thoroughly researched biography then moves on to Whymper’s post-Matterhorn years. Following the publication of his classic Scrambles Amongst the Alps, Whymper travels first to Greenland’s unexplored interior and then to the high Andes mountains of South America where he becomes the first westerner to reach a 20,000 foot summit. In later life he is recognized as a noted explorer and the author of two best-selling books illustrated with drawings from a sketch-pad kept always in his shirt pocket. Triumph and Tragedy: the Life of Edward Whymper offers new and refreshing insights into the life of this notable Victorian personality. Spread throughout the book are examples of Whymper’s accomplishments as an author, artist, natural scientist, pioneering photographer, lecturer, and raconteur.
Supplementary Appendix to Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator
Author: Edward WhymperPublisher:
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives
Author: Anne S. TroelstraPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004343784
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
The Long White Mountan
Author: Sir Henry Evan Murchison JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Account by H.E.M. James of the exploration of China by James, Francis Younghusband, and Harry English Fulford in 1885-1886. During his service in the Indian Civil Service from 1865 to 1900, James traveled to China in 1885 with Younghusband and Fulford to explore Manchuria and the Changbai Mountains. The account includes much detail on the local peoples and customs, and constitutes an important source of historical information on the region. Also included are appendices on opium, political corruption, and earlier expeditions.
Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library
Author: Edward E. Ayer Ornithological LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description