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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: During the Years 1799-1804 by Alexander von Humboldt 9781108027953
Booksplease Price: €56.18The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799, Humboldt and the botanist Aime Bonpland secured... -
Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of HMS Fly: During the Years 1842-1846 by Joseph Beete Jukes 9781108031073
Booksplease Price: €42.29Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) was a geologist who studied at St John's College, Cambridge under Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and, after many field expeditions in England, was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland in 1839. In 1841 he joined the H.M.S. Fly... -
Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise by J. C. Willis 9781107600201
Booksplease Price: €29.62First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. The book is structured around descriptions of these resources and their... -
A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa by James Backhouse 9781108076425
Booksplease Price: €70.11James Backhouse (1794-1869) came from a family of accomplished naturalists and horticulturalists. As a Quaker, he spent several years in Australia engaged in missionary and humanitarian work, after which he returned to England via Mauritius and South... -
Great Wall for Kids by Ched Ed 9798224310456
RRP: €10.10Booksplease Price: €9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224310456Author Ched EdFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Ched EdPublisher Ched EdWeight(grams) 145g -
The West Indies: The Natural and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies by Sir Andrew Halliday 9781108023108
Booksplease Price: €48.85Sir Andrew Halliday (1782-1839) served as a surgeon in the Peninsular War, and then as a royal physician. In 1832 he was appointed Inspector of Hospitals in the West Indies until ill-health forced his return to Scotland. During his time there he... -
Notes on the Mineralogy, Government and Condition of the British West India Islands and North-American Maritime Colonies by Thomas Cochrane 9781108054065
Booksplease Price: €25.01The most renowned naval officer of the mid-nineteenth century, Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860), served in wars against Spain and France, retiring as an admiral in the Royal Navy. He was also an M.P., vociferously calling for naval... -
The Alps: Or, Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains by Hermann Alexander Berlepsch 9781108061216
Booksplease Price: €49.21Following the precedent and standards set by the Baedeker guides, travel literature enjoyed great popularity during the later nineteenth century. This guidebook to the Alps, written by Hermann Alexander Berlepsch (1814?-83) and translated from German by... -
The Voyage of the Discovery by Robert F. Scott 9781108074773
Booksplease Price: €59.64At the outset of the twentieth century, Antarctica was scarcely explored or understood. Penetrating the pack ice in the purpose-built Discovery, the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-4) established a base in McMurdo Sound, enabling scientists... -
The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt 9781108071369
Booksplease Price: €53.84Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was fascinated from his earliest years by stories of strange lands and voyages of exploration. A priest by profession, he was also an indefatigable editor and translator of geographical accounts, and a propagandist for... -
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc.: From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia by A. G. Findlay 9781108059725
Booksplease Price: €70.71The English geographer and hydrographer Alexander George Findlay (1812-75) had observed that navigators of his time had to consult a considerable number of documents to gather the information they needed to sail the Pacific Ocean safely. Not only was... -
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage: And of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829-33 by John Ross 9781108050203
Booksplease Price: €88.87Polar explorer John Ross (1777-1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829 he set out on a privately funded expedition on... -
Ulster by George Fletcher 9781107511422
Booksplease Price: €33.08Originally published in 1921 as part of a series of geographical studies of Ireland, this book examines the geographical, botanical, geological, zoological, architectural, administrative and historical points of interest found in Ulster. The text is... -
Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland: Sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in Search of the Lost Colonies, under the Command of Captain W. A. Graah of the Danish Royal Navy by Wilhelm August Graah 9781108075145
Booksplease Price: €30.77In 1828 a Danish expedition was sent out from Copenhagen under the command of the naval officer and explorer Wilhelm August Graah (1793-1863). Its goal was to locate lost Norse settlements on the coast of Greenland, which had existed in certain places... -
Connaught by George Fletcher 9781107511361
Booksplease Price: €31.93Originally published in 1922 as part of a series of geographical studies of Ireland, this book examines the geographical, botanical, geological, zoological, architectural, administrative and historical points of interest found in Connaught. The text is... -
Travels into North America: Containing its Natural History, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country by Peter Kalm 9781108031493
Booksplease Price: €48.85Peter Kalm (1716-79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and became a professor of 'oeconomie' - the economic application of subjects such as mineralogy, botany,... -
A Polar Reconnaissance: Being the Voyage of the Isbjoern to Novaya Zemlya in 1879 by Sir Albert Hastings Markham 9781108071949
Booksplease Price: €42.29Enhanced by several attractive engravings, this work, first published in 1881, illuminates Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, north of the Russian mainland. Naval officer Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) summarises... -
A Summer in Iceland by Carl Wilhelm Paijkull 9781108071017
Booksplease Price: €42.29In 1865, the Swedish geologist Carl Wilhelm Paijkull (1836-69) made a voyage from Copenhagen to Iceland, a country that was still little understood by the rest of Europe. In the course of a trip that had a chiefly scientific purpose, Paijkull noted not... -
The Place to Stay: The Hotel Victory Story: A Journey of Learning and Insight by Steve Porter 9798215828236
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215828236Author Steve PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Deeper Life PressPublisher Deeper Life PressWeight(grams) 118g -
An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: Volume 1 by John Hawkesworth 9781108065498
Booksplease Price: €56.18A bestseller in its day, this three-volume work vividly recounts significant voyages made by Britain's leading navigators. A prominent figure in London cultural life, John Hawkesworth (c.1720-73) was commissioned by the Admiralty to compile, from the... -
The Great Frozen Land (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra): Narrative of a Winter Journey across the Tundras and a Sojourn among the Samoyads by Frederick George Jackson 9781108048255
Booksplease Price: €38.84Frederick George Jackson (1860-1938) set out on his expedition from Vaygach Island with two objectives: to test his equipment for a future voyage much further north, and to study the Samoyeds. Although his goals seemed straightforward, they proved more... -
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 by Charles Darwin 9781108083157
Booksplease Price: €57.93In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's 1832-6 voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of South America. This three-volume work, published in 1839,... -
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: During the Years 1799-1804 by Alexander von Humboldt 9781108027939
Booksplease Price: €41.14The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. In 1799, Humboldt and the botanist Aime Bonpland secured... -
The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopa, A.D. 1503 to 1508: Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510 by Lodovico de Varthema 9781108010764
Booksplease Price: €50.37The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished... -
The Threshold of the Unknown Region by Sir Clements Robert Markham 9781108074858
Booksplease Price: €41.13An eminent geographer, Clements Markham (1830-1916) had searched for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic as a young man in the Royal Navy. This stimulated his lifelong passion for the polar regions. Published in 1873, this historical review of Arctic... -
Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary: From the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka by John Dundas Cochrane 9781108072267
Booksplease Price: €53.86John Dundas Cochrane (1780-1825) was destined for the sea from an early age, but is best remembered as 'the Pedestrian Traveller'. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he set out on a six-year tour of France, Spain and Portugal on foot. When in 1820 the... -
A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson 9781108041652
Booksplease Price: €56.18In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration. Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, newspapers ranging from the Boy's Own Paper to the Graphic were full of... -
The Philippine Islands Vol.- 17 by Edward Gaylord Bourne 9789359396538
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359396538Author Edward Gaylord BourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 259g -
The Philippine Islands Vol.-12 by Edward Gaylord Bourne 9789359396491
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359396491Author Edward Gaylord BourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 249g -
The Last of the Arctic Voyages: Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Assistance, under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in Search of Sir John Franklin, during the Years 1852-54 by Sir Edward Belcher 9781108028899
Booksplease Price: €49.21When the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a... -
If These Walls Could Talk: The Complete Story of What Took Place Within the Walls of 508 St. James Street, Richmond, Virginia, in Historic Jackson Ward by Shirley R Hawkins 9798218069728
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218069728Author Shirley R HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Shirley R. HawkinsPublisher Shirley R. HawkinsWeight(grams) 281g -
Narrative of an Expedition in HMS Terror: Undertaken with a View to Geographical Discovery on the Arctic Shores, in the Years 1836-7 by George Back 9781108063708
Booksplease Price: €49.21Having served on expeditions under John Franklin, the British naval officer Sir George Back (1796-1878) had already gained first-hand experience of Arctic peril and survival by the time he was appointed in 1836 to command HMS Terror. His mission was to... -
Morocco and the Moors: Being an Account of Travels, with a General Description of the Country and Its People. by Arthur Leared 9781241500665
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241500665Author Arthur LearedFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
A Natural History of Nevis, and the Rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America: With Many Other Observations on Nature and Art by William Smith 9781108076999
Booksplease Price: €38.84During his five years in the 1730s as rector of St John's parish on the Caribbean island of Nevis, William Smith collected a number of remarkable seashells, which he presented to the Woodwardian Museum of Fossils at the University of Cambridge nine years... -
The North-West Passage and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin: With a Sequel to 'The North-West Passage and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin' by John Brown 9781108074964
Booksplease Price: €56.18When John Brown (1797-1861) developed a defect in his eyesight, he could no longer embark on extended voyages for the East India Company. After making a fortune selling gold and diamonds, he cultivated his geographical interests, and was elected to the... -
Arctic Miscellanies: A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search by James John Louis Donnet 9781108074797
Booksplease Price: €41.14In 1850, a small squadron of British naval vessels, under the command of Horatio Austin, sought to locate the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. The ships were trapped in ice by September 1850 and the men were forced to endure the forbidding... -
Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, and the Interjacent Ports: Compiled Chiefly from Original Journals at the East India House by James Horsburgh 9781108077286
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €51.23As first mate aboard an East India Company vessel, James Horsburgh (1762-1836) was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean in 1786 after faulty charts steered the ship onto a reef. Thereafter he devoted himself to the production of accurate charts of the eastern... -
The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt 9781108071314
Booksplease Price: €53.84Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was fascinated from his earliest years by stories of strange lands and voyages of exploration. A priest by profession, he was also an indefatigable editor and translator of geographical accounts, and a propagandist for... -
A Two Years' Cruise Off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate: A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas by William Parker Snow 9781108062046
Booksplease Price: €44.60Following participation in the Arctic search for Sir John Franklin, the mariner and author William Parker Snow (1817-95) volunteered in 1854 to command the schooner Allen Gardiner, named after the man whose work for the South American Missionary Society... -
Journal of HMS Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55 by Sir. Richard Collinson 9781108041744
Booksplease Price: €56.18Published posthumously in 1889, this journal records the 1850-5 expedition undertaken by naval officer and navigator Sir Richard Collinson (1811-83) to attempt to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition by entering the hypothetical North-West...