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Author : Eric Quayle
Publisher : London : Dawsons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book R. M. Ballantyne: a Bibliography of First Editions written by Eric Quayle and published by London : Dawsons. This book was released on 1968 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jen Hill
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479463
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book White Horizon written by Jen Hill and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging historical and literary studies, White Horizon explores the importance of the Arctic to British understandings of masculine identity, the nation, and the rapidly expanding British Empire in the nineteenth century. Well before Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, polar space had come to represent the limit of both empire and human experience. Using a variety of texts, from explorers' accounts to boys' adventure fiction, as well as provocative and fresh readings of the works of Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins, Jen H ill illustrates the function of Arctic space in the nineteenth-century British social imagination, arguing that the desolate north was imagined as a "pure" space, a conveniently blank page on which to write narratives of Arctic exploration that both furthered and critiqued British imperialism.
Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135636567
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Mapping Men and Empire written by Richard Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. Adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, narrate encounters between Europeans and the non-European world. They map both European and non-European people and places. In the exotic, uncomplicated and malleable settings of stories like Robinson Crusoe, they make it possible to imagine, and to naturalise and normalise, identities that might seem implausible closer to home. This book discusses the geography of literature and looking at where adventure stories chart colonies and empires, projecting European geographical fantasies onto non-European, real geographies, including the Americas, Africa and Australasia.
Author : Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780802034601
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada written by Francess G. Halpenny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
Author : Rob David
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121506
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 written by Rob David and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
Author : Metropolitan Toronto Library Board. Canadian History Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Canadiana: 1850-1867 written by Metropolitan Toronto Library Board. Canadian History Department and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119587
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The empire of nature written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the significance of the hunting cult as a major element of the imperial experience in Africa and Asia. Through a study of the game laws and the beginnings of conservation in the 19th and early-20th centuries, the author demonstrates the racial inequalities which existed between Europeans and indigenous hunters. Africans were denied access to game, and the development of game reserves and national parks accelerated this process. Indigenous hunters in Africa and India were turned into "poachers" and only Europeans were permitted to hunt. In India, the hunting of animals became the chief recreation of military officers and civilian officials, a source of display and symbolic dominance of the environment. Imperial hunting fed the natural history craze of the day, and many hunters collected trophies and specimens for private and public collections as well as contributing to hunting literature. Adopting a radical approach to issues of conservation, this book links the hunting cult in Africa and India to the development of conservation, and consolidates widely-scattered material on the importance of hunting to the economics and nutrition of African societies.
Author : Philippa Bernard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Antiquarian Books written by Philippa Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion sets out to provide in one comprehensive volume much of the essential information required by those who sell antiquarian and secondhand books and by those who buy them. It has been compiled with particular attention to the needs of those who do not have ready access to all the necessary reference sources. The entries - some four hundred and fifty in all - include explanations of many technical terms used in the description of books. Printing illustration, and binding are all covered as are many features of book trace practice. Thirty specially commissioned longer articles provide important studies of the main aspects of the world of antiquarian books. For example, Anthony Rota contributes an introductory article on Bookselling in a Changing World, Henry Woudhuysen writes on Bibliography, Mirjam Foot on Fine Bookbinding, David Chambers on Book Collecting, Robin de Beaumont on Victorian Books, and Lord John Kerr on Book Auctions; all the contributors are authoritative specialists in their various fields. Antiquarian Books includes bibliographical references in the text as well as useful appendices a comprehensive index, and text illustrations. The book is intended primarily for the dealer in antiquarian and second-hand books, but will be of interest to everyone with a professional or personal interest in the subject.
Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719023675
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Manliness and Morality written by J. A. Mangan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. S. Bratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317365623
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction written by J. S. Bratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981. Many of the classics of children’s literature were produced in the Victorian period. But Alice in Wonderland and The King of the Golden River were not the books offered to the majority of children of the time. When writing for children began to be taken seriously, it was not as an art, but as an instrument of moral suasion, practical instruction, Christian propaganda or social control. This book describes and evaluates this body of literature. It places the books in the economic and social contexts of their writing and publication, and considers many of the most prolific writers in detail. It deals with the stories intended to teach the newly-literate poor their social and religious lessons: sensational romances, tales of adventure and military glory, through which the boys were taught the value of self-help and inspired with the ideals of empire; and domestic novels, intended to offer girls a model for the expression of heroism and aspiration within the restricted Victorian woman’s world.
Author : Bibliographical Society of America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America written by Bibliographical Society of America and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Howard Howard-Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Index to British Literary Bibliography: Shakespearian bibliography and textual criticism written by Trevor Howard Howard-Hill and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Miller
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783083174
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Empire and the Animal Body written by John Miller and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction’ develops recent work in animal studies, eco-criticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature. Depictions of violence against animals were integral to the ideology of adventure literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the evolutionary hierarchies on which such texts relied were complicated by developing environmental sensitivities and reimaginings of human selfhood in relation to animal others. As these texts hankered after increasingly imperilled areas of wilderness, the border between human and animal appeared tense, ambivalent and problematic.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Book Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : LA CASE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Cannibal Islands' is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballantyne uses detailed descriptions of the customs and habits of those who Captain Cook encountered to flesh out the adventures of the famous explorer. Ballantyne is particularly fascinated by the habit of cannibalism practised by some of the people that Cook encountered. Very much of it's time, this is nevertheless a fascinating and insightful read.
