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Travels Into North America: Containing Its Natural History, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country
ISBN: 9781108031516 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Kalm (1716 79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and became a professor of 'oeconomie', the economic application of subjects such as mineralogy, botany, zoology and chemistry at the university of Turku. Between 1747 and 1751 he set out on a journey through eastern North America to gather specimens, especially from regions with a similar climate to Sweden. Because Kalm travelled though the area when much of it was still unknown to Europeans, this work has some of the first recorded accounts of...
Peter Kalm (1716 79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and...
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284,60 zł |
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A Voyage Round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe
ISBN: 9781108031837 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741 88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean, which ended in disaster when in 1788 the ships left Botany Bay in Australia on course for the islands of Oceania, and were never heard from again. However, La Perouse had sent back via a British ship letters, journals and charts which form the basis of these detailed volumes (first published in English translation in 1799), providing a fascinating account of the journey and the discoveries of the expedition. They provide valuable insights into...
Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741 88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean...
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511,17 zł |
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A Voyage Round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe
ISBN: 9781108031844 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741 88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean, which ended in disaster when in 1788 the ships left Botany Bay in Australia on course for the islands of Oceania, and were never heard from again. However, La Perouse had sent back via a British ship letters, journals and charts which form the basis of these detailed volumes (first published in English translation in 1799), providing a fascinating account of the journey and the discoveries of the expedition. They provide valuable insights into...
Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse (1741 88) was a French explorer appointed by Louis XVI to lead an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean...
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470,51 zł |
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Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World: On Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethnic Philosophy
ISBN: 9781108031882 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Reinhold Forster (1729 98), a scientific writer and translator of German origin, took part in Cook's second Pacific voyage, from 1772 to 1775, and published this study, which records his examinations of 'nature in its greatest extent; the earth, the sea, the air, the organic and animated creation', in 1778. He drew upon the ideas of 'the most ingenious men of the age' in constructing his observations on natural history and navigation. The first half of the book addresses the physical aspects of the world: earth and land, oceans, global changes and flora and fauna. The second half focuses...
John Reinhold Forster (1729 98), a scientific writer and translator of German origin, took part in Cook's second Pacific voyage, from 1772 to 1775, an...
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470,51 zł |
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Agriculture in the Tropics: An Elementary Treatise
ISBN: 9781107600201 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. The book is structured around descriptions of these resources and their potential for future development, numerous illustrative figures are also included. Because the text is written from a broadly colonial perspective, such development is largely seen in terms of an engagement between the modernising influence of dominant states and the 'primitive' environments over which they hold sway. This volume will be...
First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural res...
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197,46 zł |
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The Life of John William Colenso, D.D.: Bishop of Natal
ISBN: 9781108032063 / Angielski / Miękka / 730 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The prolific nineteenth-century historian and liberal churchman George William Cox (1827 1902) published this biography of the controversial bishop John William Colenso (1814 83) in 1888. Colenso was appointed the first Bishop of Natal in 1853, and in the next few years he oversaw the completion of the cathedral in Pietermaritzburg and the building of churches in Durban and Richmond, established mission stations and learned Zulu. He was heavily criticised for his tolerance of Zulu practices and for his view that the Old Testament was not literally true. Eventually he was excommunicated,...
The prolific nineteenth-century historian and liberal churchman George William Cox (1827 1902) published this biography of the controversial bishop Jo...
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470,51 zł |
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The Life of John William Colenso, D.D.: Bishop of Natal
ISBN: 9781108032070 / Angielski / Miękka / 740 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The prolific nineteenth-century historian and liberal churchman George William Cox (1827 1902) published this biography of the controversial bishop John William Colenso (1814 83) in 1888. Colenso was appointed the first Bishop of Natal in 1853, and in the next few years he oversaw the completion of the cathedral in Pietermaritzburg and the building of churches in Durban and Richmond, established mission stations and learned Zulu. He was heavily criticised for his tolerance of Zulu practices and for his view that the Old Testament was not literally true. Eventually he was excommunicated,...
The prolific nineteenth-century historian and liberal churchman George William Cox (1827 1902) published this biography of the controversial bishop Jo...
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470,51 zł |
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Topography of Roman Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall
ISBN: 9781107684737 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1949 book provides a fully illustrated description, from the field, of all the Roman remains in Scotland north of the Antonine Wall (i.e. the Forth Clyde line). It contains an introductory chapter describing the various kinds of antiquities to be met with in the course of the journey, and the methods of identification on the ground and from the air."
This 1949 book provides a fully illustrated description, from the field, of all the Roman remains in Scotland north of the Antonine Wall (i.e. the For...
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239,05 zł |
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An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Description of Its Geography, Natural History and Minerals, and an Analysis of
ISBN: 9781108033367 / Angielski / Miękka / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Howard Stansbury (1806 63) trained as a civil engineer and became a major in the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. He oversaw a number of construction projects and later had geographical features and plant and animal species named after him. In 1849 51, Stansbury led an expedition to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah to carry out a scientific survey, as well as to scout possible locations for a transcontinental railroad and to evaluate emigration trails. This book, first published in 1852, is Stansbury's account of that expedition, and of his party's encounters with...
Howard Stansbury (1806 63) trained as a civil engineer and became a major in the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. He oversaw a num...
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400,80 zł |
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Ageless Wits
ISBN: 9781626979512 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,44 zł |
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Nottingham (Arnold & Daybrook) 1899: Nottinghamshire Sheet 38.06
ISBN: 9781847844262 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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18,13 zł |
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Ancoats 1849: Manchester Large Scale Sheet 30
ISBN: 9781847844804 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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18,13 zł |
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Govan 1894: Lanarkshire Sheet 06.09a
ISBN: 9781847844507 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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18,13 zł |
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An Account of the Arctic Regions: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery
ISBN: 9781108037785 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789 1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven, and was later apprenticed to his father. He became a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks, and his extensive research on the Arctic area included pioneering work in oceanography, magnetism, and the study of Arctic currents and waves. He surveyed 400 miles of the Greenland coast in 1822. This account was the first book published in...
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789 1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 18...
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435,65 zł |
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An Account of the Arctic Regions: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery
ISBN: 9781108037792 / Angielski / Miękka / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789 1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven, and was later apprenticed to his father. He became a correspondent of Sir Joseph Banks, and his extensive research on the Arctic area included pioneering work in oceanography, magnetism, and the study of Arctic currents and waves. He surveyed 400 miles of the Greenland coast in 1822. This account was the first book published in...
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789 1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 18...
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400,80 zł |
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The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N.
ISBN: 9781108040617 / Angielski / Miękka / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matthew Flinders (1774 1814) joined the Royal Navy at fifteen, later claiming to have been inspired by Robinson Crusoe. He served under William Bligh, and charted the Bass Strait in 1798. In 1801 he was commissioned to chart 'New Holland', and so became the first to circumnavigate the island he referred to as Australia. After being shipwrecked on the Barrier Reef and imprisoned for six years on Mauritius on suspicion of spying, he returned to England in 1810 and began work on A Voyage to Terra Australis. He died the day after his book and maps were published. This biography, published in 1914...
Matthew Flinders (1774 1814) joined the Royal Navy at fifteen, later claiming to have been inspired by Robinson Crusoe. He served under William Bligh,...
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383,37 zł |
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New Lands Within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872-1874
ISBN: 9781108041447 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume work by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Julius von Payer (1841 1915), originally published in German and translated into English almost immediately in 1876, documents his experiences during the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, which he commanded from 1872 to 1874 with his colleague Karl Weyprecht. Early into the expedition, of which the original aim was to find a north-eastern passage, their ship, the Tegetthoff, became trapped in ice, and its resultant drifting into unknown territories led to the discovery of Franz-Josef Land. Volume 1 explores the...
This two-volume work by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Julius von Payer (1841 1915), originally published in German and translated ...
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284,60 zł |
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New Lands Within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872-1874
ISBN: 9781108041454 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume work by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Julius von Payer (1841 1915), originally published in German and translated into English almost immediately in 1876, documents his experiences during the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, which he commanded from 1872 to 1874 with his colleague Karl Weyprecht. Early into the expedition, of which the original aim was to find a north-eastern passage, their ship, the Tegetthoff, became trapped in ice, and its resultant drifting into unknown territories led to the discovery of Franz-Josef Land. Volume 2 describes the...
This two-volume work by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Julius von Payer (1841 1915), originally published in German and translated ...
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284,60 zł |
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With Nansen in the North: A Record of the Fram Expedition in 1893-96
ISBN: 9781108041508 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (1867 1913) was a Norwegian Polar explorer. He accompanied Nansen on the Fram Expedition of 1893 6 and took part in a number of explorations of the Svalbard archipelago. He later participated in Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole in 1910 12, although he was written out of the official history following a bitter dispute with Amundsen. Johansen's account of Nansen's Fram Expedition appeared in Norwegian in 1898, and this English translation was published the following year. It describes Nansen's attempt to drift north in a deliberately ice-bound ship and then...
Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (1867 1913) was a Norwegian Polar explorer. He accompanied Nansen on the Fram Expedition of 1893 6 and took part in a number ...
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284,60 zł |
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Vitus Bering: The Discoverer of Bering Strait
ISBN: 9781108041515 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vitus Bering (1681 1741) was a Danish-born Russian navigator. He enlisted in the Russian navy and fought during the Great Northern War (1700 21) against the Swedish Empire. In 1725 he received a commission from Peter the Great to discover whether there was a land bridge between Russia and America. He sailed through what would later be called the Bering Strait, but was unable to reach America on this first attempt. He succeeded on his next voyage, later named the Great Northern Expedition, and set about mapping significant sections of North American coastline. He also charted the Arctic coast...
Vitus Bering (1681 1741) was a Danish-born Russian navigator. He enlisted in the Russian navy and fought during the Great Northern War (1700 21) again...
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220,70 zł |
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