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  • av Charles W. J. Withers, Hayden Lorimer & André Reyes Novaes
    641,-

  • av Charles W. J. Withers
    415,-

    This book offers the first full length biography of legendary explorer Mungo Park for over forty years. Tracing the expeditions who followed him it documents how and why he was commemorated long after his death. This is not simply one of the great stories of world exploration but a rich and varied account of Africa and its cultures at the time.

  • - Geographies of the Prime Meridian
    av Charles W. J. Withers
    432,-

    Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0 Degrees longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. This history is a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of global measurement, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.

  • - Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859
    av Innes M. Keighren, Charles W. J. Withers & Bill Bell
    561,-

    In eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. This book takes readers on a journey into the nature of exploration.

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