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An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and
(Hardcover)
John Hawkesworth, John Byron, Samuel Wallis
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R1,188
Discovery Miles 11 880
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A little guide to the history of Staffordshire using the monuments
around us.
Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M.
R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on
historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a
selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the
development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of
whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the
interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct
the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient
historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus,
Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa,
Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other
issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of
states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and
the Holy Land.
Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight
essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly
engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two
physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both
geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French
colonial geographer, a Russian explorer-naturalist of Central Asia
and Tibet, a British-born but long-time Australian resident and
scholar of India, Pakistan, and the Pacific world, an American
regionalist and eugenicist, and a Scots-born long-time American
resident, one of the world's leading Marxist geographers and urban
theorists. Equally but differently committed to geography's many
specialisms, these subjects wonderfully illuminate the vibrancy -
and the contradictions - behind the living of geographical lives.
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