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The Royal Navy
One hundred years after its first printing, Sir William Clowes's superb seven volume study still retains its position as the preeminent history of the Royal Navy. Volume 5 covers the Napoleonic Wars.
The Academy
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The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer
Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up ...
The Story of Majorca and Minorca
Reproduction of the original: The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Clements R. Markham
