A corkscrew is most useful : the travellers of empire
Murray, Nicholas2008
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Drawing on the travellers' own unique and colourful accounts, from Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, Darwin aboard the Beagle and Richard Francis Burton on the road to Mecca to less well-known but equally intrepid explorers, this book looks at travel during the time of the British Empire.
Main title:
A corkscrew is most useful : the travellers of empire / by Nicholas Murray.
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Imprint:
London : Little, Brown, 2008.
Collation:
x, 532 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Ill. and maps on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-503) and index.
ISBN:
9780316731041 (hbk)
Dewey class:
910.409034TRAV WRITING 910.409034
Language:
English
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BRN:
1998511