Ebooks de John Keay en EPUB

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America John Keay Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von HumboldtGeographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry than any contemporary. Also an indomitable traveller, particularly in the... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Central and South Asia John Keay Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander BurnesOf all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first British Indian expedition, that of William Moorcroft in 1819-26, had never... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: East and Central Africa John Keay Among the Sudanese - James BruceBruce reached the source of the Blue Nile in 1771, a century before the search for the source of the White Nile became headline news. His descriptions of the cruelties and orgies at Gondar, the Ethiopian capital, were greeted with... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arctic John Keay Four Years in the Ice - John RossDisgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain range blocking the most likely access to the North West Passage, in 1829 Ross returned to Canada's frozen archipelago to vindicate his reputation. He rounded the north of... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Australia John Keay Landfall at Botany Bay - James CookThe son of a Yorkshire farm labourer, Cook won distinction as a naval hydrographer but was still a controversial choice to command a voyage of scientific observation to the Pacific in 1768. Its results, including the first coastal... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Arabia John Keay Escape from Riyadh - William Gifford PalgraveA scholar and a solider, a Jesuit and a Jew, a French spy and a British ambassador- Palgrave was a man of contradictions, all of them highly compromised when in 1862-3, fortified by Pius IX's blessing and Napoleon III's cash,... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Siberia and Alaska John Keay Stranded on Bering Island - Georg Wilhelm StellerAs physician and scientific know-all on Vitus Bering's 1741 voyage, Steller shared its triumphs, including landing the first Europeans in Alaska. He also shared its disasters. Returning across the north Pacific to Russian... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: North America John Keay First Crossing of America - Alexander Mackenzie"Endowed by nature with an acquisitive mind and an enterprising spirit", Mackenzie, a Scot engaged in the Canadian fur trade, resolved, as he out it "to test the practicability of penetrating across the continent of... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Antarctic John Keay Farthest South - Ernest Henry ShackletonBorn in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first attempt to reach the South Pole and, though badly shaken by the... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: West Africa John Keay Alone in Africa - Mungo ParkPark's 1795-7 odyssey in search of the Niger first awakened the world to the feasibility of a white man penetrating sub-Saharan Africa. But unlike his illustrious successors, this quiet tenant farmer's son from the Scottish Borders travelled... Editeur : Robinson Parution : 2012-06-07 Collection : Mammoth Books ePub 1,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies China John Keay An authoritative and “exquisitely written” (Guardian) account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled,... Editeur : Basic Books Parution : 2009-10-06 ePub 14,99 €

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