In the autumn of 1841, George French Angas (1822 86) abandoned his conventional career in the City of London for a life of art, travel and zoology. Inspired by a childhood fascination with natural history, his accounts blend detailed antiquarian descriptions of temples and palaces with picturesque notes on livestock and wildlife. Published in 1842, this work was the first of Angas' books to charm the British reading public, and its success launched his new career as a prolific chronicler and illustrator of foreign lands. Opening with the journey to Malta, Angas begins his tour in Valetta, taking in the forts of St Elmo and St Angelo and various tapestries and paintings en route. In Sicily, he continues to document Mediterranean culture, making also an ascent of Mount Etna. Illustrated with fourteen engravings, this book displays the charm and diversity that defines the best nineteenth-century travel writing.

George French Angas (1822-86) gave up a career in business to become an artist, and his interest in natural history and ethnology is apparent throughout his work. In the early 1840s he travelled to Australia and New Zealand. His paintings from this period were later exhibited and formed the basis of two important large-format books of lithographs that appeared in 1849, having been announced in this two-volume 1847 account of his travels. Volume 1 documents Angas' expeditions in South Australia, a colony his father helped to found. Angas accompanied William Giles into the Murray basin and George Grey along the south-east coast, and his observations include detailed descriptions of the way of life of the Aboriginal tribes there. The book continues with Angas' voyage to Wellington, with views of Taranaki and the Kaikouras, his first impressions of the Maori (including a haka), and his onward journey to Auckland.

George French Angas (1822-86) gave up a career in business to become an artist, and his interest in natural history and ethnology is apparent throughout his work. In the early 1840s he travelled to Australia and New Zealand. His paintings from this period were later exhibited and formed the basis of two important large-format books of lithographs that appeared in 1849, having been announced in this two-volume 1847 account of his travels. Volume 2 describes Angas' journey of nearly 800 miles on foot from Auckland into the volcanic interior of North Island, and the spectacular landscapes he saw there. He recounts how he 'invariably experienced hospitality and protection' among the Maori, and documents their customs, both ancient and Christianized. The book ends with Angas' impressions of New South Wales, an account of the customs of the Aboriginal tribes there, and his return to England via Cape Horn and Brazil.

Title: Explorations in Australia. ... With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia. ... Illustrations by G. F. Angas. (Governor Weld's Report on Western Australia, 30 Sep. 1874] to the Earl of Carnarvon.).Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Forrest, John Baron Forrest; Angas, George French; Weld, Frederick Aloysius; 1875. 8 . 10491.s.3.

Title: A Ramble in Malta and Sicily, in the autumn of 1841 ... Illustrated with sketches taken on the spot, and drawn on stone by the author.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Angas, George French; 1842. vii. 168 p.; 8 . 1429.k.2.

Title: Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand: being an artist's impressions of countries and people at the Antipodes. With numerous illustrations.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Angas, George French; 1847. 2 vol.; 12 . IOL.1947.a.27

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV, THE KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. " Ix,, I must tell a tale of chivalry " In speaking of the island of Malta, I should be guilty of an important omission if I neglected to mention the knightly order of St. John of Jerusalem, which occupied this spot for nearly 300 years, and with whose history the name of Malta must be ever associated. On the 23rd of March, 1530, Charles the Fifth, king of Sicily, gave over to the order of St. John of Jerusalem the islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, with Tripoli, in Africa, as a free and noble fief under certain conditions. The remains of the order, who had fled from the island of Rhodes, and were then in the Papal States, took possession of this grant in the autumn of the same year. The island, after having successively been under the dominion of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Carthaginians, fell from the hands of the Romans during the middle ages under the precarious sway of the Arabs, and Sicilians, but now began to rise into importance under the military government of the knights. On their arrival they found the island in a state of great destitution, and exposed to continued attacks from the Turks and Barbary corsairs. The first act of the Grand Master was to refortify the old castle of St. Angelo, which was built by the Arabs; and thus to secure a defence against the attacks of his enemies. In 1546, the famous corsair Dragut effected a landing, and sacked the village of Tarshien, but was compelled to retreat with great loss. After this, repeated attempts were made by the Turks to gain possession of the island, and they were as often repulsed, till under the reign of John de la Valette, Malta underwent its severest assault from the hands of the same people. Solyman, enraged at the seizure of a Turkish galleon belonging...