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…

How to use the aneroid barometer. This book, How to use the aneroid barometer, by Edward Whymper, is a replication of a book originally published before 1891. It has been…

Title: Winter Pictures by poet and artist. [Selections in verse from various authors.] With … engravings by E. Whymper.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

Title: Pictures from Bible Lands drawn with pen and pencil. Edited by S. G. G. The illustrations by E. Whymper and other … artists.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British…

Arriving home in A.D. 1366 from a meeting of Parliament in London, Sir Hugh Middleton is shocked to learn from his daughter that a neighboring monastery has laid claim to…

In 1865, when just twenty-five years of age, Edward Whymper achieved the fame of which he had dreamt as a teenager by making the first ascent of the Matterhorn, the…