Contributor:
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Date:1884
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Ultima Thule; or, A summer in Iceland.
"Catalogue-raisonné of modern travel in Iceland":v. 1, p. 235-260. Appendices: On sulphur in Iceland, by O. Henchel, Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Mr. C. Crowe ... Leasing contract. Sulphur in Sicily. Sulphur in Transylvania. Sulphur in Andaman Islands. Seen through the press by Högni Gunlögsen. cf. Pref.
Contributor:
Burton, Richard Francis - Burton, Richard F[Rancis]
Personal records of the Kandahar campaign,
The Kandahar Campaign was the last phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). It began in late June 1880, when Ayub Khan, the governor of Herat, led an Afghan force toward Kandahar, then occupied by an Anglo-Indian army. A column of troops under Brigadier General George Burrows was sent from Kandahar to try to intercept Ayub Khan's force but was defeated in a fierce...
Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah.
Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) was a British orientalist, soldier, spy, diplomat, and explorer best known for his travels in Arabia, Africa, and India. He was born in Torquay, on the southern coast of England, and was raised in France and Italy. It was there that he began to show his exceptional talent with languages by learning Latin, Greek, Italian, and French before he was...
Contributor:
Burton, Richard Francis
Date:1857-01-01
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The province of Burma; a report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago,
"Contribution to a bibliography of Burma": v. 2, p. [973]-1001. "Mr. Alleyne Ireland finds it impracticable to carry out his undertaking of a series of twelve volumes on ʻA report on colonial administration in the Far East.' It therefore terminates with the publication of the two volumes on ʻThe province of Burma.'"--Letter from Houghton Mifflin company, dated March 7, 1912. "References" at beginning of...
Contributor:
Ireland, Alleyne
Date:1907-01-01
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Tales of travel,
George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several travel books, or books that drew extensively on his travels, including Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), and Problems of the...
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Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
The Burmese empire a hundred years ago,
Includes preface to the first edition (1833) signed "N. Wiseman" [i.e. Cardinal Wiseman] List of the principal works referred to : p. [xxxi]-xxxii.
Contributor:
Sangermano, Vincenzo - Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick - Sangermano - Jardine, John
The history of British India;
James Mill (1773-1836) was a Scottish-born writer and political philosopher, also known as the father of the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). He studied at the University of Edinburgh, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, and worked for a time as an itinerant preacher. In 1802 Mill moved to London, where he began a career as a writer of pamphlets, articles, and...
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Browne, Edward Granville - Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson
Date:1900-01-01
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An account of the kingdom of Caubul,
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was an administrator with the East India Company who in 1808 was sent by the British Indian authorities on a mission to Afghanistan for the purpose of concluding an agreement with the Afghan ruler, Shah Shuja Durrani. Suspicious of British intentions and engaged in a domestic power struggle, Shah Shuja refused to allow Elphinstone and his party to proceed beyond Peshawar...
A voyage round the world : including an embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837
In 1832, U.S. president Andrew Jackson, acting on the advice of Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, dispatched Edmund Roberts as a "special agent of the government," empowered to negotiate treaties of amity and commerce with countries in Asia. The objective was to expand trade between these countries and the United States. Between early 1832 and May 1834, Roberts circumnavigated the globe. In the...
Contributor:
Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1838
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Speeches.
George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) served as viceroy and governor-general of India from 1899 to 1905. As the head of the British administration in India, he instituted sweeping reforms in the colonial bureaucracy, organized relief in the famine of 1899-1900, and enacted agricultural reforms aimed at increasing food production. He also modernized the police, railways, educational system and universities, established the North-West Frontier Province (in...
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Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
A history of Persia,
"List of authorities": v. 2, p. 541-547. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-8-27
Contributor:
Shackleton, Ernest Henry - Mill, Hugh Robert - David, T. W. Edgeworth (Tannatt William Edgeworth)
Date:1909-01-01
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Arabia; the cradle of Islam;
Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952) was an American Protestant missionary who lived for nine years in Bahrain and became a student of the Arab world and, especially, the Arabian Peninsula. Published in New York in 1900, Arabia: The Cradle of Islam contains detailed chapters on the geography of Arabia; the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of Islam; the contemporary...
Book/Printed MaterialJournal of a tour through part of the snowy range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-3
Book/Printed MaterialJeannette inquiry. Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the United States House of Representatives, Forthy-eighth Congress. This volume is a compilation of the testimony and supporting documentation gathered by the Committee on Naval Affairs of the United States House of Representatives in the course of its inquiry into the loss of the USS Jeannette in the Arctic in 1879-81 and the subsequent fate of the ship's crew. The Jeannette left San Francisco on July 8, 1879, under the command of...
Book/Printed MaterialUltima Thule; or, A summer in Iceland. "Catalogue-raisonné of modern travel in Iceland":v. 1, p. 235-260. Appendices: On sulphur in Iceland, by O. Henchel, Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Mr. C. Crowe ... Leasing contract. Sulphur in Sicily. Sulphur in Transylvania. Sulphur in Andaman Islands. Seen through the press by Högni Gunlögsen. cf. Pref.
Book/Printed MaterialThe first Afghan war and its causes, Introduction signed: H. M. Durand.
Book/Printed MaterialPersonal records of the Kandahar campaign, The Kandahar Campaign was the last phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). It began in late June 1880, when Ayub Khan, the governor of Herat, led an Afghan force toward Kandahar, then occupied by an Anglo-Indian army. A column of troops under Brigadier General George Burrows was sent from Kandahar to try to intercept Ayub Khan's force but was defeated in a fierce...
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Book/Printed MaterialThe land of Midian (revisited). LAC ael 2019-03-21 update (1 card)
Book/Printed MaterialTwo trips to gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo. Includes bibliographical references.
Book/Printed MaterialPersonal narrative of a pilgrimage to el Medinah and Meccah. Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) was a British orientalist, soldier, spy, diplomat, and explorer best known for his travels in Arabia, Africa, and India. He was born in Torquay, on the southern coast of England, and was raised in France and Italy. It was there that he began to show his exceptional talent with languages by learning Latin, Greek, Italian, and French before he was...
Book/Printed MaterialThe province of Burma; a report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago, "Contribution to a bibliography of Burma": v. 2, p. [973]-1001. "Mr. Alleyne Ireland finds it impracticable to carry out his undertaking of a series of twelve volumes on ʻA report on colonial administration in the Far East.' It therefore terminates with the publication of the two volumes on ʻThe province of Burma.'"--Letter from Houghton Mifflin company, dated March 7, 1912. "References" at beginning of...
Book/Printed MaterialTales of travel, George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several travel books, or books that drew extensively on his travels, including Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), and Problems of the...
Book/Printed MaterialThe Burmese empire a hundred years ago, Includes preface to the first edition (1833) signed "N. Wiseman" [i.e. Cardinal Wiseman] List of the principal works referred to : p. [xxxi]-xxxii.
Book/Printed MaterialThe history of British India; James Mill (1773-1836) was a Scottish-born writer and political philosopher, also known as the father of the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). He studied at the University of Edinburgh, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, and worked for a time as an itinerant preacher. In 1802 Mill moved to London, where he began a career as a writer of pamphlets, articles, and...
Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.
Book/Printed MaterialArabic authors.
Book/Printed MaterialA history of Ottoman poetry, Vol. 1 reprinted, 1958.
Book/Printed MaterialAn account of the kingdom of Caubul, Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) was an administrator with the East India Company who in 1808 was sent by the British Indian authorities on a mission to Afghanistan for the purpose of concluding an agreement with the Afghan ruler, Shah Shuja Durrani. Suspicious of British intentions and engaged in a domestic power struggle, Shah Shuja refused to allow Elphinstone and his party to proceed beyond Peshawar...
Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of a journey into Khorasān, in the years 1821 and 1822. Including some account of the countries to the north-east of Persia; with remarks upon the national character, government, and resources ... Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
Book/Printed MaterialA voyage round the world : including an embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837 In 1832, U.S. president Andrew Jackson, acting on the advice of Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, dispatched Edmund Roberts as a "special agent of the government," empowered to negotiate treaties of amity and commerce with countries in Asia. The objective was to expand trade between these countries and the United States. Between early 1832 and May 1834, Roberts circumnavigated the globe. In the...
Book/Printed MaterialSpeeches. George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) served as viceroy and governor-general of India from 1899 to 1905. As the head of the British administration in India, he instituted sweeping reforms in the colonial bureaucracy, organized relief in the famine of 1899-1900, and enacted agricultural reforms aimed at increasing food production. He also modernized the police, railways, educational system and universities, established the North-West Frontier Province (in...
Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva; with some account of the court of Khiva and the kingdom of Khaurism. James Abbott (1807-96) was a British army officer who went to India in 1823. He participated in the Anglo-Indian invasion that precipitated the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). He reached Kandahar in April 1839 and was a member of a political mission to Herat. In December 1839 he was sent on a mission to the Khanate of Khiva (in present-day Uzbekistan), which was under attack...
Book/Printed MaterialA history of Persia, "List of authorities": v. 2, p. 541-547. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-8-27
Book/Printed MaterialSouth : the story of Shackleton's last expedition, 1914-1917 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-8-27
Book/Printed MaterialThe heart of the Antarctic; being the story of the British Antarctic expedition 1907-1909, One folded plate and 3 folded maps in pocket. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-8-27
Book/Printed MaterialArabia; the cradle of Islam; Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952) was an American Protestant missionary who lived for nine years in Bahrain and became a student of the Arab world and, especially, the Arabian Peninsula. Published in New York in 1900, Arabia: The Cradle of Islam contains detailed chapters on the geography of Arabia; the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of Islam; the contemporary...