Excerpt: "e;When an expedition starts for distant and mysterious regions for an uncertain length of time, and particularly when its objective point is the frozen heart of the Arctic Circle, it is natural that those who know and are interested in its objects and plans should turn with interest to its personnel and its surroundings and environment while en route to the scene of action.
Excerpt: "e;With Lieutenant Cook, in this voyage, embarked Joseph Banks, Esquire, a gentleman possessed of considerable landed property in Lincolnshire.
An Account of twelve Years intimate Relations with the primitive Eskimo of Ice-Bound Baffin Land with a Description of their Ways of Living, Hunting, Customs & Beliefs.
Excerpt: "e;Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water, or contain another continent, as speculative geography seemed to suggest, was a question which had long engaged the attention, not only of learned men, but of most of the maritime powers of Europe.
Excerpt: "e;The first two decades of the twentieth century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved.
Excerpt: "e;I have made no attempt in these pages to review the splendors of the past, or to probe the many vital questions which concern the present, of this wondrous City of the Sea.
Excerpt: "e;"e;We were a jolly pair, we two, and ladies at that; and we had decided to go, amid the protestations of the towns-people and the remarks of Madam Grundy that it was not proper, and that there were so many tramps it was not prudent for two ladies to take a trip with their horse and carriage along the North Shore.
Excerpt: "e;Six years have passed since the grave at Renthendorf closed over the remains of my esteemed father, whose death-all too early-was as great a loss to Science as to those who loved and honoured him.
Excerpt: "e;By many friends, both in this country and in the Far East, the question has often been asked me: "e;Why do you not write a book about Japan?
1929 unternahmen die vier deutschen Wissenschaftler Fritz Loewe, Johannes Georgi, Ernst Sorge und Alfred Wegener eine Vorexpedition nach Grönland, die dem Erkunden von Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten aufs Inlandeis, der Erprobung von wissenschaftlichen Meßgeräten, dem Vertrautwerden mit Hundeschlitten sowie mit den topographischen Gegebenheiten Grönlands dienen sollte.
Der deutsche Zoologe Franz Doflein (1873 - 1924) veröffentlichte 1921 die hier vorliegende umfassende Beschreibung seiner Reise nach Mazedonien; sie enthält neben eigenen Aquarellen, Zeichnungen und Fotografien zoologisch-biologische als auch zeitgeschichtlich interessante Informationen zu Land und Leuten.
Excerpt: "e;The transit from the coasts of Britain to those of Egypt was marked by nothing that can interest or amuse, unless it be the contrast between the phenomena of winter on the former, with those which strike the view on approaching the latter.
Wrecked on the Feejees: Experience of a Nantucket man a century ago, who was sole survivor of whaleship "e;Oeno"e; and lived for nine years among cannibals of South Sea Islands
Excerpt: "e;The readers of this book will be interested to learn that the expedition from Dundee which set out for the Antarctic regions in 1892 to the Weddell Sea, south and east of Graham's Land, and in which the author of the present volume took part, was the first of its kind since the famous expedition commanded by Sir James Ross in 1842.
The Discovery of Guiana is a book by Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote this account one year after his 1595 journey to "e;Guiana"e;, the Venezuelan region of Guayana.
(Excerpt): "e;The notes which form the ground-work of these volumes have long been kept in the obscurity of manuscript: my studies of South America, of Syria and Palestine, of Iceland, and of Istria, left me scant time for the labour of preparation.
Excerpt: "e;In reverent and affectionate retrospective view of the influences and conditions which had power and made mark upon the settlement of New England, we are apt to affirm with earnest sentiment that religion was the one force, the one aim, the one thought, of the lives of our forbears.
Durch die Wüsten und Kulturstätten Syriens (Through the Deserts and Cultural Sites of Syria) is a German translation of the travelogue written by Gertrude Bell, an English writer, traveler, archaeologist, and political officer in the early 20th century.
Excerpt: "e;Like an idle messenger-boy, Fate takes a long while about her rounds, but she will get through with them and deliver all her parcels, if you give her time enough.
Excerpt: "e;Next to actual travel, the reading of first-class travel stories by men and women of genius is the finest aid to the broadening of views and enlargement of useful knowledge of men and the world's ways.
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from Lafcadio Hearn's "e;Interpretations of Literature,"e; 1915, from his "e;Life and Literature,"e; 1916, and from his "e;Appreciations of Poetry,"e; 1917.
Excerpt: "e;But life in an English village derives its charm only in part from its intimacy with wild Nature and all her wonders and beauties, indispensable as these are to the daily lives of most thinking, working men.
Illustrated with rare and exclusive images from the official company archives, an authoritative and entertaining guide to the wildly popular, beautifully designed luxury recreational vehicle that has become a cultural icon, embodying the American spirit of freedom and adventureand the ideal in mobile living.
