Menu
Zistiť stav objednávky
Kontaktujte nás
Kniha Like A Rolling Stone Michael John Lyon

Like A Rolling Stone

The Life and Travels of George Francis Lyon, RN, FRS

Autor: Michael John Lyon
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: New Generation Publishing
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
Odosielame za 14-21 dní
16.16 €
George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a rare combination of African and Arctic explorer. A 'pop star'...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Michael John Lyon
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2017
Stránok
258
EAN
9781787193932
ISBN
1787193934
Enbook ID
16313763
Vydavateľ
New Generation Publishing
Hmotnosť
402
Rozmery
156 x 234 x 15

Kompletný popis

George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) was a rare combination of African and Arctic explorer. A 'pop star' of his day, he caught the public's Romantic imagination by battling against untrustworthy allies, callous slave owners, destitution, and disease in the desert, and by struggling against freezings, hunger, thirst, and over-exertion in the Polar region. The geographical detail in his journals helped to lay the path for other explorers and his genuine interest in the communities he visited, very unusual for the time, proved invaluable to later anthropologists. After serving on several ships, he joined Joseph Ritchie's ill-fated expedition to North Africa (1818-20). The Admiralty appointed him to command HMS Hecla and he accompanied Edward Parry in HMS Fury on Parry's second Arctic expedition (1821-3). In 1824, the Admiralty assigned George to HMS Griper with orders to go to Repulse Bay and undertake an overland expedition. The Royal Navy shunned him after he failed to reach his destination. He then managed mines in Mexico and Brazil where his relentless ambition eventually killed him. Many of his accomplished drawings illustrate this book which is the first to cover his extraordinary and fascinating life and travels in full.

Mohlo by vás zaujímať

Looming Lamplight: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Bk 2

Ursula Dubosarsky
9.40 €

Performance Anxiety Strategies

Casey McGrath
120.60 €

Maps

John Freeman
23.21 €

Military Vocabulary: German-English and English-German

F G Zimmerman
15.28 €

Secret Power: Extreme Energy Transmutation

Mark E. Wilkins
11.94 €

Zákazníci, ktorí si kúpili túto knihu, kúpili tiež

Das Große Pendelbuch

Petra Sonnenberg
20.86 €

La Vie A Paris: 1880-1885. Annee 2

CLARETIE-J
31.54 €

Libro de Solucion Del Cubo de Rubik para Ninos

David Goldman
10.96 €

Écarte la nuit

Juliet
18.51 €

Podróżowanie z Samem. Wimmelbuch. Wersja ukraińska

Lieseloth Versteeg
9.79 €

Královský život

Melanie Summers
13.25 €