Facsimile reprint, by Hobnob Press for Dorset Record Society, of its vol 13, an edition of a diary and letters by Dorset farmers before and during the Napoleonic Wars. The edition was first published in paperback by the society in 1993.
Facsimile reprint, by Hobnob Press for Dorset Record Society, of its vol 13, an edition of a diary and letters by Dorset farmers before and during the...
This book presents the History of Antarctic Exploration. "The search for the supposed great southern continent roused interest in the South Polar area, even earlier than the commercial need for the Northeast or Northwest Passage directed the attention of the European nations to the Arctic seas. Long before Hudson had started the northern whale fishery, or Barents had discovered Spitzbergen, or Willoughby had set out on that 'new and strange navigation' which, according to Milton, was intended to save England from the commercial ruin threatened by foreign competition, Arabian, Dutch and...
This book presents the History of Antarctic Exploration. "The search for the supposed great southern continent roused interest in the South Polar area...
