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A corkscrew is most useful : the travellers of empire

Murray, Nicholas2009
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Drawing on the travellers' own unique and colourful accounts, from Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, Darwin aboard the Beagle and Richard Francis Burton on the road to Mecca to less well-known but equally intrepid explorers, this book looks at travel during the time of the British Empire.
Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2009.
Collation:
x, 532 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2008.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780349119267 (pbk)0349119260 (pbk)
Dewey class:
910.4'09034910.409034910.4
Local class:
910.409
Language:
English
BRN:
1353401
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