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Book/Printed MaterialAustralasia truimphant!- Contributor: Adcock, Arthur St. John
- Date: 1916
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MapKarta Novoĭ Zelandii. 1823.
Карта Новой Зеландии. 1823. Dopolnitel'nai︠a︡ karta: Plan zaliva Duski.- 1:92 600. Original map at: National Library of Russia From the atlas "Атлас Южного моря сочиненный флота капитан командором Крузенштерном." Дополнительная карта: План залива Дуски.- 1:92 600.- Contributor: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich
- Date: 1824
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Book/Printed MaterialLetter from Murakami Shunzō to Saito Makoto. Japan's first Antarctic exploration, the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12, led by Lieutenant Shirase Nobu (1861-1946), left Japan in November 1910 aboard the Kainan Maru. The expedition was a major undertaking that entailed huge expense, and the sponsors struggled to raise all the funds required strictly from private donations. Presented here is a letter that Murakami Shunzō (1872-1924), the full-time executive secretary of the...- Contributor: Saito, Makoto - Murakami, Shunzō, 1924
- Date: 1911
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Book/Printed MaterialWomen of the Empire in War Time: In Honour of their Great Devotion and Self-Sacrifice. This book was published in London in 1916 by the Dominion of Canada News Company to celebrate the contributions and sacrifice of the women of the British Empire in support of the Allies during World War I. Among the individuals extolled is Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Brussels, who saved both German and Belgian lives and who was executed in 1915 by...- Contributor: De Beck, A. M.
- Date: 1916
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Book/Printed MaterialEast Africa and Uganda, or, Our Last Land. John Cathcart Wason (1848--1921) was a Scottish-born farmer and politician who as a young man immigrated to New Zealand, where he acquired large landholdings and was elected to the national parliament. In 1900 he sold his New Zealand estate and returned to Scotland, where he was elected to the British parliament. Wason took an interest in colonial affairs and was particularly concerned about what...- Contributor: Wason, John Cathcart
- Date: 1905
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Book/Printed MaterialThe heart of the Antarctic; being the story of the British Antarctic expedition 1907-1909, The British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9, led by Ernest H. Shackleton, left Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, in the ship Nimrod on January 1, 1908. On February 3, the Nimrod deposited Shackleton and a party of 14 men at Cape Royds, on Ross Island. The men divided into three groups. One would try to reach the South Pole, a second went north to reach the...- Contributor: Shackleton, Ernest Henry - Mill, Hugh Robert - David, T. W. Edgeworth (Tannatt William Edgeworth)
- Date: 1909
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Photo, Print, DrawingZulu Soldiers of King Panda's Army, 1847. This lithograph is based on a drawing by the British-born artist, George French Angas (1822--86). Angas traveled to Australia and New Zealand in 1844--45, where he painted some of the earliest views of both countries. Upon his return to England, he showed his paintings to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1846, Angas left for South Africa, where he spent two years in Natal...- Contributor: Angas, George French - M. & N. Hanhart
- Date: 1847
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Book/Printed MaterialBritish possessions in Oceania. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. British Possessions in Oceania is Number 144 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920
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Book/Printed MaterialFormer German possessions in Oceania. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Former German Possessions in Oceania is Number 146 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Discoveries and Acquisitions in the Pacific is Number 139 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920
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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. Four Years Aboard the Whaleship is a first-hand account of a voyage to the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans in search of the sperm and right whales. The account is by William B. Whitecar, Jr., a Philadelphian who signed on as a common sailor on the New Bedford whaler Barque Pacific. It is based on a detailed journal, which the author kept, as he...- Contributor: Whitecar, William B.
- Date: 1860
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Book/Printed MaterialTo the Desert and Back; or, Travels in Spain, the Barbary States, Italy, etc., in 1875--6.
To the desert and back, or, Travels in Spain, the Barbary States, Italy, etc., in 1875-6 To the Desert and Back is an account by Zouch Horace Turton, a Victorian-era traveler who in 1875--76 embarked on a journey that took him from London to France, Spain, the Barbary States (the coastal regions of present-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya), Sicily, Italy, France, and back to London. The journey lasted 283 days. Combining sea and rail travel, Turton made brief stops...- Contributor: Turton, Zouch H.
- Date: 1876
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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...- Contributor: Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
- Date: 1923
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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.- Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
- Date: 1811
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Book/Printed MaterialAustralians in action: the story of Gallipoli ...- Contributor: Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) - New South Wales. Public Instruction Department - Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis
- Date: 1915
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Book/Printed MaterialPlants of the Lloyd botanic garden, Darjeeling,- Contributor: Biswas, Kalipada
- Date: 1940
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Dardanelles; an epic told in pictures ...- Contributor: Hamilton, Ian
- Date: 1916
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Anzac book;- Date: 1916
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Book/Printed MaterialSir Ian Hamilton's despatches from the Dardanelles, etc.- Contributor: Hamilton, Ian
- Date: 1915
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Book/Printed MaterialThe desert campaigns,- Contributor: Massey, W. T. (William Thomas) - Massey, William Thomas
- Date: 1918
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Book/Printed MaterialAshmead-Bartlett's despatches from the Dardanelles. Portrait on cover.- Contributor: Ashmead-Bartlett, Ellis
- Date: 1915
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Book/Printed MaterialFreshwater Algae from India,- Contributor: Carter, Nellie
- Date: 1926
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Book/Printed MaterialThe flora of the Chakaria Sundarbans,- Contributor: Cowan, John Macqueen
- Date: 1928
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Book/Printed MaterialCoronel and the Falkland islands,- Contributor: Hilditch, A. Neville
- Date: 1915
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