Floating Islands

Floating Islands

Author: Chet A. Van Duzer

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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This book is a unique treasury of information about one of nature's marvels: floating islands. It bibliography contains more than 1,500 citations of books and articles in 20 languages on the subject. The entries are annotated and cross-referenced, and there are both thematic and geographic indices. All aspects of floating islands are addressed.


An a Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. to Which Is Prefixed

An a Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. to Which Is Prefixed

Author: Churchill Awnsham 1728, D.

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13: 9781314657685

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.


Letters on South America, Vol. 1 of 3

Letters on South America, Vol. 1 of 3

Author: J. P. Robertson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780331657678

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Excerpt from Letters on South America, Vol. 1 of 3: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the ParanĂ¡ and Rio De La Plata We have embodied in these epistles a rapid poli tical review of the River Plate provinces; but we must guard our readers against the supposition that we class our sketch as one rising into history. It has no pretence to rank in that higher walk of literature. We shall be content if future and more able historians than ourselves can find, in our review, some impartial data and some useful hints, on which to found more ample annals of one of the leading republics in the immense territory which once con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.