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The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914

Various

The volume presents a scholarly examination of early trans‑continental ambitions, centering on George…

雞肋編

Chuo Zhuang

Lake Ngami: or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa

Charles John Andersson

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue that records two extensive expeditions across the…

In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2)

Fridtjof Nansen

This volume, the second of Fridtjof Nansen’s two‑part study of early Arctic exploration, is a scholarly…

A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia

J. G. Bartholomew

A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia is a reference work that combines cartographic detail with concise…

Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character And a Memoir of Dean Ramsay by Cosmo Innes

Edward Bannerman Ramsay

The work is a memoir that intertwines the personal history of Edward Bannerman Burnett, later Dean Ramsay of…

History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté

William Canniff

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical study that began as a paper on the settlement of the Bay of…

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 2 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773

James Bruce

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders’s A Voyage to Terra Australis is a meticulous record of the three‑year exploration…

History of Astronomy

George Forbes

George Forbes’s History of Astronomy is a compact survey that seeks to map the shifting intellectual…

Thirty years in Madagascar

Thomas T. Matthews

Thomas T. Matthews offers a straightforward, memoir‑like account of three decades of missionary service in…

The Rise of the Russian Empire

Saki

The work is a scholarly survey of Russian history, written at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes

Wilfred Mark Webb

The Heritage of Dress presents itself as a broad‑ranging survey of clothing, intended not merely as a…

Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography

W. Roberts

The book is a scholarly handbook on the history of printers’ marks, the ornamental trade‑marks that early…

Byeways in Palestine

James Finn

Byeways in Palestine is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends geographic description with biblical…

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians

The volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers together a wide range of Native American material,…

The Colonial Clippers

Basil Lubbock

The work is a detailed reference on British merchant‑marine clippers, especially those that carried emigrants…

The Violoncello and Its History

Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

The work is a scholarly survey of the violoncello’s evolution, beginning with a detailed account of its…

Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand

Ármin Vámbéry

Ármin Vámbéry’s Travels in Central Asia is a first‑person account of a mid‑nineteenth‑century expedition that…

History of Spanish Literature, vol. 2 (of 3)

George Ticknor

History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3

Henry Thomas Buckle

Ácoma, the sky city: A study in Pueblo-Indian history and civilization

Mrs. William T. Sedgwick

The work is a scholarly compilation that seeks to present everything that has been written about the Pueblo…

History of the Commune of 1871

Lissagaray

The Parish Clerk

P. H. Ditchfield

The work is a nostalgic survey of the parish clerk, an office that once filled English churches with music,…