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Victorian Explorers and Travellers - Collected Works Illustrated - cover

Victorian Explorers and Travellers - Collected Works Illustrated

David Livingstone

Casa editrice: Delphi Publishing Ltd

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The Victorian era witnessed a surge of interest in discovering and exploring the most ‘unknown’ regions of the world. Legendary names like Livingstone, Burton, Stanley, Kingsley, Franklin, Scott and Shackleton conjure in the mind of the modern reader a bygone age of limitless adventure and exotic new worlds. From the darkest depths of Africa to the exotic climes of the Far East; from the perilous jungles of the Americas to the chilling dangers of the Polar Regions, these daring men and women have bequeathed to us a treasure trove of true-life adventure stories. This comprehensive eBook presents the collected works of the most notable Victorian explorers and travellers, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
 
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to the life and works of numerous explorers and travellers* Concise biographical introductions for each author* 79 books, with individual contents tables* A comprehensive range of explorers* Features rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including Marianne North’s seminal autobiography* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
 
CONTENTS:
 
Part I: Explorers of Africa and the Middle East
 
James Richardson (1809-1851)Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa (1853)Travels in Morocco (1859)
 
David Livingstone (1813-1873)Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857)A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries (1865)Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa (1874)The Personal Life of David Livingstone (1880) by William Garden Blaikie
 
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah (1855)First Footsteps in East Africa (1856)The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860)The Guide-Book: A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina (1865)Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876)The Land of Midian (1879)To the Gold Coast for Gold (1883)The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam (1898)
 
Samuel Baker (1821-1893)The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon (1853)Eight Years’ Wanderings in Ceylon (1855)The Albert N’Yanza Great Basin of the Nile (1866)The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia (1867)Ismailia (1874)Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879 (1879)In the Heart of Africa (1886)Wild Beasts and Their Ways (1890)
 
John MacGregor (1825-1892)A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe (1866)The Voyage Alone in the Yawl ‘Rob Roy’ (1867)
 
John Hanning Speke (1827-1864)Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863)What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1864)
 
James Augustus Grant (1827-1892)A Walk across Africa (1864)
 
Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)How I Found Livingstone (1872)In Darkest Africa (1890)Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (1893)Through South Africa (1898)
 
Mary Kingsley (1862-1900)Travels in West Africa (1897)West African Studies (1899)
 
And many more - too many to list!
Disponibile da: 29/09/2023.
Lunghezza di stampa: 30141 pagine.

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