Encyclopedia Of Exploration 1850 To 1940 The Oceans, Islands And Polar Regions.
£80.00
Publisher
Hordern House.
Place
Potts Point, NSW.
Date
2006
Synopsis
A comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization in the oceans, the islands, new zealand and the polar regions from 1850 to the early decades of the twentieth century.
Item Description
Large 4to. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. x + 724 pp. Text in double columns. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Pictorial endpapers. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A detailed alphabetically arranged guide to the history of world exploration, travel and colonisation of the oceans and to the islands and polar regions. It includes 521 major articles, index entries covering over 3000 travellers, with bibliographies citing more than 14,000 works of reference. The third in a series of encyclopaedias by Raymond John Howgego (1946-), traveller, explorer and writer.
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