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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...- Contributor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
- Date: 1884
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Book/Printed MaterialThe languages of the seat of war in the East. With a survey of the three families of language, Semitic, Arian and Turanian.- Contributor: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
- Date: 1855-01-01
- Resource: - 273 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialKandahar in 1879; Kandahar in 1879 is the diary of Brigade Major Augustus Le Messurier (1837-1916), a British Indian railroad engineer who first joined the Bombay Engineers in 1856 and rose to become chief engineer and secretary to the government of Punjab in 1889. In November 1878, very shortly before the beginning of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Le Messurier was assigned to the Quetta Field Force, which...- Contributor: Le Messurier, A. - Le Messurier, Augustus
- Date: 1880-01-01
- Resource: - 336 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Biblical geography of Asia Minor, Phœnicia, and Arabia. Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller (1768-1835) was a German Orientalist and theologian. He was born in Hesselberg, Bavaria, and studied in Erlangen, Giessen, and in Leipzig under his father Johann Georg, also a theologian. The younger Rosenmüller became professor of Arabic and Oriental languages at Leipzig, where he devoted many years to his colossal, 24-part collection, Scholia in Vetus Testamentum, a major exegetical work on...- Contributor: Rosenmüller, Ern. Frid. Car - Robinson, Edward - Morren, N. (Nathaniel) - Smith, Eli
- Date: 1841-01-01
- Resource: - 376 pages
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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...- Contributor: Mill, James
- Date: 1817-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialFour years aboard the whaleship. Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. images not viewed; td12 2010-10-19- Contributor: Whitecar, William B.
- Date: 1860-01-01
- Resource: - 428 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, In December 1838 Colonel Charles Stoddart arrived in Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan), where he had been sent on a mission by the British East India Company to try to arrange an alliance with the khanate against the Russian Empire, whose expansion into Central Asia was of concern to the British. The ruler of Bukhara, Nasrullah Khan (reigned 1827-60), had Stoddart imprisoned in a vermin-infested dungeon...- Contributor: Wolff, Joseph
- Date: 1845-01-01
- Resource: - 414 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Afghan campaigns, of 1878-1880, The Afghan Campaigns of 1878-1880 is a two-volume account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) by Sydney H. Shadbolt, a London barrister and the author of works on imperial subjects. The first volume, entitled "Historical Division," includes a sketch of the war and the movements of the forces, illustrated by maps. The second volume, entitled "Biographical Division," contains albumen photographs and short biographies of...- Contributor: Shadbolt, Sydney Henry - Shadbolt, S. H. (Sydney Henry)
- Date: 1882-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialArabia, Egypt, India: a narrative of travel, At head of title: A E I.- Contributor: Burton, Isabel
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: - 521 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a reception given to the captain and officers of the Jeannett Search Expedition when about to sail from this port in the United States ... "Re-printed from the reports and type of the Daily Alta California and other city papers." The papers include Early discoveries of Wrangel land; The object of Arctic explorations, by C.W. Brooks; Description of the Rodgers; The telegraph in Arctic regions, by James Gamble. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: California Academy of Sciences
- Date: 1881-01-01
- Resource: - 24 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan ... "Catalogue of books of voyages and travels": v. 17, p. [1]-255. Vol. 13 is also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2020-10-22 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Pinkerton, John - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1808-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe exploration of the world. Added t. p., illus. Series title also at head of t. p.- Contributor: Leigh, Dora - Verne, Jules
- Date: 1882-01-01
- Resource: - 678 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan ... "Catalogue of books of voyages and travels": v. 17, p. [1]-255. Vol. 13 is also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2020-10-22 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Pinkerton, John - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1808-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe inner life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land.- Contributor: Burton, Isabel
- Date: 1875-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55, Translation of: Itinerarium. Bibliography: p. [xlvii]-lvi.- Contributor: Giovanni - Ruysbroeck, Willem Van - Ruysbroek, Willem Van - Rockhill, William Woodville
- Date: 1900-01-01
- Resource: - 389 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTwo trips to gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo. Includes bibliographical references.- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1876-01-01
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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...- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1857-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay archipelago. Reprint of the 1905 ed. Bibliography: p. [lxxvii]-lxxxii, [375]-384.- Contributor: Jourdain, John - Foster, William
- Date: 1967-01-01
- Resource: - 482 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe gold-mines of Midian and the ruined Midianite cities. A fortnight's tour in north-western Arabia.- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1878-01-01
- Resource: - 422 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe bondage and travels of Johann Schiltberger : a native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 On spine: Travels of Schiltberger. Translation of: Reisen in Europa, Asien, und Afrika von 1394-1427. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xiv) and index.- Contributor: Schiltberger, Johannes
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: - 337 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialArabic authors.- Contributor: Arbuthnot, F. F.
- Date: 1890-01-01
- Resource: - 276 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialAkbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605, Bibliography: p. 459-486.- Contributor: Smith, Vincent A. (Vincent Arthur)
- Date: 1917-01-01
- Resource: - 547 pages
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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.- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Burton, Richard F[Rancis]
- Date: 1875-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of Corea, ancient and modern; with description of manners and customs, language and geography The Reverend John Ross was a Presbyterian minister who, in 1872, left his native Scotland to become a missionary in China. He opened a school for boys in 1873 and, having mastered Chinese, in 1877 published Mandarin Primer: Being Easy Lessons for Beginners, designed to help English speakers learn Chinese. After working for a time in Xin Zhuang, Liaoning Province, he moved to the...- Contributor: Ross, John
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: - 445 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe life of Abdur Rahman, Amir of Afghanistan ... ʻAbd al-Rahman Khan (1844-1901) ruled Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He was a grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan (ruled 1826-39 and 1845-63), the founder of the Barakzai dynasty of Afghanistan after the fall of the Durranis and the end of the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842. After long years in exile in Central Asia, Rahman came to power in Afghanistan with the support of...- Contributor: ʻabd Al-Raḥmān Khān
- Date: 1900-01-01