One of the greatest journeys ever; Caillie was the first European to reach and return alive from this fabled city.
One of the greatest journey's ever; Caillie was the first European to reach and return alive from this fabled city.
Twelve unique biographical essays on professionals of the mid-Victorian era. Extensive and painstaking research has produced portraits of players selected for their cricketing... Læs mere
This is a wonderful portrait of a land at which, as S.G.W. Benjamin has said, 'the cultivated imagination kindles'.
When C.B. Klunzinger left Europe in 1863 he had it in mind to make a zoological investigation of the Red Sea and its environs.
Written at the beginning of the century, this work retains the ability to life the reader upon a magic carpet ride into the wonder of the orient. As the author informs us it is a 'tale of adventures, exploits and love.'
The Afghan Wars of 1839-1842 and 1878-1880 were the direct result of Russian and British Imperial designs for the expansions of the respective spheres of influence. Archibald Forbes' book is a recognised scholarly history of those wars.
A collation of the author's extensive writings made during his travels and studies in Spain from 1826 to 1829 dealing with the foundations of the Islamic faith.
Provides one of the first complete and historically accurate popular accounts of this period in Spanish history.
A splendid narrative of the author's encounters with the Moslem community in Tripoli and its hinterland during his medical mission in 1912, set up to aid the Moslem casualties of the Italian occupation of 1911.
A contemporary account of Frederick Horneman's journey from Cario in September 1798, where he joins a caravan bound for Mourzouk (Marzuq) in the heart of the Libyan desert.