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Vespucci Was The One Person For Whom North And South America Was Named After.
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Clements R Markham
Narratives of the mission of George Bogle to Tibet - and of the journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876…
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Life of Christopher Columbus is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…
Reproduction of the original: The Paladins of Edwin the Great by Clements R. Markham
The Fighting Veres - Lives of Sir Francis Vere an Sir Horace Vere is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality…
This is a Navy Records Society book.
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1862 Edition.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Travels in Peru and India - while superintending the collection of chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the…
Clement R. Markham
A revised edition of First Series1 above, edited, with an Introduction, along with narratives of the voyages of Sir Richard Hawkins’ grandfather William, of his father Sir John, and of…
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1859.
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continued in First Series 45. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published…
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continues First Series 41. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: Printed for the Hakluyt Society Subjects: America South America Voyages and travels Biography
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.
A Memoir of the Lady Ana de Osorio - countess of Chinchon and vice-queen of Peru - A. D. 1629-39 - with a plea for the correct spelling of the…
Reproduction of the original: The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Clements R. Markham
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
The book, The Travels Of Pedro De Cieza De Leon, A.D. 1532-50, Contained In The First Part Of His Chronicle Of Peru, has been considered by academicians and scholars of…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1872 volume contains translations of four accounts of the Spanish…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This sixteenth-century narrative, published in English in 1862, is the self-justificatory account of a…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, published in 1877, provides four contemporary accounts of Sir…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This second edition, from 1878, of the Observations of Sir Richard…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1881 volume contains accounts of Baffin’s voyages exploring northern waters…
Clements R. Markham
This 1906 biography was one of the first and most important Ricardian apologias for a general readership. The distinguished geographer Sir Clements Markham (1830-1916) sought to restore the reputation of…
In 1880, the Royal Geographical Society commissioned Sir Clements R. Markham, a noted British geographer and secretary of the Society, to write a history to celebrate the Society’s fiftieth anniversary…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from Spanish and…
Clements Markham describes James Rennell (1742-1830) as ‘the greatest geographer that Great Britain has yet produced’. Best remembered for his attempts to locate the historical Troy, Rennell spent his career…
Appearing in 1856 as his first publication on the topic, this is a lively and entertaining account of Clements Markham’s travels through Peru to the city of Cuzco. His stay…
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This book, published in 1873, contains translations of four manuscripts describing the rites and laws…
By the mid-nineteenth century, the bark of the cinchona tree was widely sought after. It contained quinine, an effective malarial treatment much needed in tropical climates. However, it was indigenous…
