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Author: John Block Friedman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 113559094X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia is a reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years A.D. 525 to 1492.
Author: Alan Day
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-06-19
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 081086326X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system
Author: Mary K. Mannix
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2015-01-14
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0838912958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 1425
ISBN-13: 1135456631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author: Aldus Corporation
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1032
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781579584245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author: Ferguson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1585
ISBN-13: 1438128541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPraise for the previous editions: Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"
Author: Susan C. Awe
Publisher: Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a selection of subject dictionaries and encyclopedias that would be useful in all types of libraries.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780816054695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK8 volumes with over 500 articles on all categories of occupations present such information as job descriptions, salaries, educational and training requirements, sources of further reading, and other pertinent facts.
