Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with Illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy and ZoologyHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 359 pàgines |
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... travellers who , from the earliest ages , and in various direc- tions , have sought to explore Africa ; and also to give a general view of the physical and social condi- tion of that extensive continent at the present day . This quarter ...
... travellers who , from the earliest ages , and in various direc- tions , have sought to explore Africa ; and also to give a general view of the physical and social condi- tion of that extensive continent at the present day . This quarter ...
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... traveller in parched and boundless de- serts . In the former they had less to endure from that almost total absence of human life which ren- ders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to ex- perience in the latter from the fierce ...
... traveller in parched and boundless de- serts . In the former they had less to endure from that almost total absence of human life which ren- ders the Arctic zone so dreary , than they had to ex- perience in the latter from the fierce ...
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... TRAVELLERS . Horneman - Nicholls - Roentgen - Adams - Riley CHAPTER XI . GOVERNMENT EXPEDITIONS . 108 Great Expedition planned under Tuckey and Peddie - Captain Tuckey reaches the Congo - Difficulties encountered - Great Sickness ...
... TRAVELLERS . Horneman - Nicholls - Roentgen - Adams - Riley CHAPTER XI . GOVERNMENT EXPEDITIONS . 108 Great Expedition planned under Tuckey and Peddie - Captain Tuckey reaches the Congo - Difficulties encountered - Great Sickness ...
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... travellers even now find that country co- vered with magnificent monuments , erected at an era when the faintest dawn of ... traveller found himself among wild and wandering tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most ...
... travellers even now find that country co- vered with magnificent monuments , erected at an era when the faintest dawn of ... traveller found himself among wild and wandering tribes , who exhibited human nature under its rudest and most ...
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... traveller . These reptiles were even reported to have once invaded Egypt , and driven before them a crowd of its terrified inha- bitants . Strabo , who wrote after the Roman sway was fully esta- blished over Africa , gives a much more ...
... traveller . These reptiles were even reported to have once invaded Egypt , and driven before them a crowd of its terrified inha- bitants . Strabo , who wrote after the Roman sway was fully esta- blished over Africa , gives a much more ...
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Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1830 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1846 |
Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa: From the Earliest Ages to ... Robert Jameson,James Wilson,Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1832 |
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