Showing posts with label voyages and travels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voyages and travels. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany

The Book of Marvels: An Explorer's Miscellany 
by Mark Jenkins 
Language: English 
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, ©2009. 
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. 
ISBN: 9781426204098, 1426204094 
Summary: Focusing on a time when the world had not been fully mapped or traveled, this book presents sights as witnessed through the eyes of Charles Darwin, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Meriwether Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Willa Cather, and many others.
Reviews: SciTech Book News

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008

To the ends of the earth : adventures of an expedition photographer

To the ends of the earth : adventures of an expedition photographer
770.92
TR790 .W55 2006
Wiltsie, Gordon
To the ends of the earth : adventures of an expedition photographer
New York : Norton, 2006.
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 9780393060287 (hardcover)
$35.00 (trade cloth)
Reviews: Reference & Research Book News, Booklist