Geographers
Geographers

Author: T. W. Freeman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1474231101

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An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.

Memorials of the Sea My Father
Memorials of the Sea My Father

Author: Scoresby William

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781318991495

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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.

Memorials of the Sea, My Father
Memorials of the Sea, My Father

Author: William Scoresby

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781332156641

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Excerpt from Memorials of the Sea, My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. Of Whitby Memorials of the Sea, My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. Of Whitby was written by William Scoresby in 1851. This is a 244 page book, containing 58266 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. 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.

The Law of the Whale Hunt
The Law of the Whale Hunt

Author: Robert Deal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1316552837

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Whale oil lit the cities and greased the machines of the Industrial Revolution. In light of its importance, competition between whalers was high. Far from courts and law enforcement, competing crews of American whalers not known for their gentility and armed with harpoons tended to resolve disputes at sea over ownership of whales. Left to settle arguments on their own, whalemen created norms and customs to decide ownership of whales pursued by multiple crews. The Law of the Whale Hunt provides an innovative examination of how property law was created in the absence of formal legal institutions regulating the American whaling industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using depositions, court testimony, logbooks, and other previously unused primary sources, Robert Deal tells an exciting story of American whalers hunting in waters from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk.

Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part I. Volume 3
Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part I. Volume 3

Author: Judith Hawley

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1040232175

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This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.