Author: George ANSON (Baron Anson.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter ... The fifteenth edition
Author: George ANSON (Baron Anson.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: The Shocking History of Electric Fishes
Author: Stanley FingerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195366727
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book examines the importance of electric fishes in science and medicine and how three species in particular shaped neurophysiology. Anchored in the philosophy and science of past epochs, it is the story of one of Nature's greatest puzzles. Over a long and tortuous path, it focuses on how some numbing fishes helped to make physiology modern.
Carteret's Voyage Round the World, 1766-1769
Author: Helen WallisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131716959X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent. Separating from Wallis at the exit to the Strait of Magellan he went on to make an independent voyage which has earned him the reputation of being the ablest and most ill-fated of Cook's immediate precursors. Handicapped by a defective ship and inadequate supplies he made a spirited attempt to carry out his instructions. While Wallis was enjoying the delights of Tahiti, Carteret on a more southerly track rediscovered the long lost Spanish discoveries of Santa Cruz and the Solomon Islands, and then became involved in a bitter dispute with the Dutch in Celebes which almost ended in open warfare. This edition presents the first full account of the voyage. It is based on Carteret's own manuscript Journals including one which Carteret wrote with a view to publication to correct the misrepresentation of John Hawkesworth's Voyages (1773). Supplemented by letters and other documents from English and Dutch archives, these manuscripts throw light on various controversial topics, such as the conduct of Wallis and the Admiralty, the Patagonian giants, Carteret's quarrel with the Dutch, and the rights and wrongs in the dispute following the publication of Voyages. Maps drawn on the voyage are reproduced. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 125) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1965.
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
A Voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV ... Compiled ... by Richard Walter ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates. The twelfth edition
Author: George ANSON (Baron Anson.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
A List of Books (with References to Periodicals) on Samoa and Guam
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Samoa
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A Catalogue of Geography Voyages
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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