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Author | : William Dampier |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2007-02-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 014196314X |
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Dampier's (1651-1715) adventures and writing inspired both Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, but in his own right he was a remarkable, observant and enjoyable writer - whether on a woefully mishandled pirate raid in Spanish America or on a desperate journey to Sumatra in an open boat or on the habits of manatees or bats. He also left the first description in English of the Aborigines of Australia - thus initiating a painful, now three centuries' long encounter between peoples on opposite sides of the world. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Author | : Mark P. Donnelly |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0811748863 |
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High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.
Author | : Mark P. Donnelly |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081174583X |
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High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.
Author | : Anne S. Troelstra |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2017-01-17 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004343784 |
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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.
Author | : Gail Pirkis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Kingsley |
Publisher | : ePenguin |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Mary Kingsley's journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world that has vanished and of a writer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny.
Author | : Isabella Lucy Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stephen Debus |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1486306942 |
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Eagles are awe-inspiring birds that have influenced much human endeavour. Australia is home to three eagle species, and in Melanesia there are four additional endemic species. A further three large Australian hawks are eagle-like. Eagles, being at the top of the food chain, are sensitive ecological barometers of human impact on the Earth’s ecosystem services, and all of the six Australian species covered in this book are threatened in at least some states (one also nationally). Three of the four Melanesian tropical forest endemics are threatened or near-threatened. In Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds, Dr Stephen Debus provides a 25-year update of knowledge on these 10 species as a supplement to the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) and recent global treatises, based partly on his own field studies. Included are the first nest or prey records for some Melanesian species. This book places the Australasian species in their regional and global context, reviews their population status and threats, provides new information on their ecology, and suggests what needs to be done in order to ensure the future of these magnificent birds. Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds is an invaluable resource for raptor biologists, birdwatchers, wildlife rescuers and carers, raptor rehabilitators and zookeepers.
Author | : Isabella Bird |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136200983 |
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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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