Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, Hall

Автор: Hall
Название: Extracts from a Journal, Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822
ISBN: 1108065473 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108065474
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Naval officer Basil Hall (1788-1844) joined the Royal Navy at the age of thirteen and had postings around the globe. This is the two-volume revised 1824 third edition of his 1823 account relating to his final commission to South America and Mexico. Darwin later had it with him aboard the Beagle.

Автор: Fre?zier
Название: A Voyage to the South-Sea and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714
ISBN: 1108077005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108077002
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amedee-Francois Frezier (1682-1773). They are reproduced in this popular travel account, reissued here in its English translation of 1717. The work also includes enlightened observations on the people, plants and animals encountered.

Автор: Denham
Название: Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824
ISBN: 110803120X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108031202
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This important book, first published in 1826, brings together the memoirs of three explorers, Major Dixon Denham (1786-1828), Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) and Dr Walter Oudney (1790-1824), to document the first complete crossing of the Sahara in recorded history, and provide unique insights into pre-colonial Africa.