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The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert During the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6
ISBN: 9781108041492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) was a British Admiral and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen and after postings in China, the Mediterranean and Australia he was promoted to Commander in 1872. For the next six years he took part in Arctic exploration, later writing fascinating accounts of his experiences. He was appointed as Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria in 1888, and in 1903 he received a knighthood and was promoted to admiral. Published in 1878, this is the first of several editions of Markham's fascinating first-hand account of the British Arctic expedition...
Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) was a British Admiral and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen and after postings in China, th...
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342,70 zł |
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A Polar Reconnaissance: Being the Voyage of the Isbjörn to Novaya Zemlya in 1879
ISBN: 9781108071949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Enhanced 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 previous discoveries and voyages made in the region by various navigators from England, Russia, Norway and elsewhere. He goes on to give an account of his 1879 voyage aboard the Norwegian cutter Isbjorn, offering details of Arctic flora and fauna, topographical and oceanographic features, and navigational difficulties presented by ice. For those...
Enhanced by several attractive engravings, this work, first published in 1881, illuminates Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archi...
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284,60 zł |
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The Cruise of the "Rosario" Amongst the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz Islands. with Map and Illustrations
ISBN: 9781241425241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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147,42 zł |
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Northward Ho!: Including a Narrative of Captain Phipps's Expedition
ISBN: 9781108071444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Originally published in 1879, this illustrated work by Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) opens with accounts of Arctic exploration from the sixth to the nineteenth centuries, including the expeditions led by Constantine John Phipps (1744 92), William Edward Parry (1790 1855) and George Nares (1831 1915). The journal of Thomas Floyd (c.1754 78), who served as midshipman under Phipps in 1773, comprises the most significant part of the work. Outlining the difficulties faced by an eighteenth-century expedition, ranging from encounters with wildlife to adverse weather conditions, Floyd's...
Originally published in 1879, this illustrated work by Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) opens with accounts of Arctic exploration from the sixth to...
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313,66 zł |
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The Voyages and Works of John Davis the Navigator: With the Map of the World, A.D. 1600, Called by Shakspere 'The New Map, with the Augmentation of th
ISBN: 9781409413264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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745,61 zł |
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A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia, and an Account of the Rescue of the Crew of the Polaris
ISBN: 9781108072007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) First published in 1874, this illustrated work by Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) recounts his experiences aboard the Dundee steam whaler Arctic. Markham also gives an account of the rescue of the crew of the American vessel Polaris, crushed by ice in 1872 during its attempt to reach the North Pole. The work is enhanced by details of meetings with Inuit, encounters with polar wildlife, oceanographic observations, and meteorological events. Appropriately, fellow naval officer and explorer Sherard Osborn (1822-75) wrote the introduction: he had a long interest in Arctic exploration,...
First published in 1874, this illustrated work by Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) recounts his experiences aboard the Dundee steam whaler Arctic. ...
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272,99 zł |
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The Life of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.
ISBN: 9781108074841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) was the cousin of the subject of this biography, published in 1917, and greatly admired his older relative, who had acted as his mentor. Clements R. Markham (1830 1916) is remembered as a prolific writer on historical geography, many of whose works are reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. As a boy, he showed great enthusiasm for both history and exploration, and after a chance encounter with an admiral, joined the navy as a cadet. After eight years, he determined to leave the service and pursue a career as an explorer and writer. His first...
Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) was the cousin of the subject of this biography, published in 1917, and greatly admired his older relative, who ha...
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284,60 zł |
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Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator
ISBN: 9781108011501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The 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 works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. John Davis (c.1543 1605) was an eminent explorer and navigator who published two highly influential guides to practical navigation in 1594 and 1595 and invented an improved version of a...
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first se...
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400,80 zł |
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