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An Account of the Arctic Regions
Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789–1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son …
Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean
John Ross had disappeared while exploring the Northwest Passage in 1829. A lieutenant in the Royal Navy, George Back (1796–1878) had already served with John Franklin on two Arctic …
Plato and the other companions of Sokrates
Best known for his influential History of Greece, the historian and politician George Grote (1794–1871) wrote this account of Plato's dialogues as a philosophical supplement to the …
Northward over the Great Ice
Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First …
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle
Even before Charles Darwin changed the world with his theory of natural selection, he was recognised as an eminent scientist and natural historian. Published in 1840, his Journal …
Memoirs of the Marchioness de La Rochejaquelein
Marie-Louise Victoire de Donnissan, Marquise de la Rochejaquelein (1772–1857) was brought up at Versailles, a god-daughter to Louis XVI. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, …
Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson’s Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619–20
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to …
A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York
York Minster has the largest cathedral library in England. The original library was established in the eighth century, but nothing survives from this period. A new collection was …
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge
For those engaged in research on Darwin or his circle, the Darwin Library is an invaluable resource. Originally donated by Darwin's son Francis to the library of the Botany School …
The Catalogue of the Library of the Wisbech Museum
Wisbech in north Cambridgeshire was a wealthy port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and was home to bankers, writers and influential social reformers including Thomas …