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The Sea
This edition of The sea (Volume - 4) is without illustrations to keep the printing and publishing costs in check. **********Born in 1838 in London, Frederick Whymper was the eldest son of Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Whitworth Claridge. His father Josiah Wood Whymper was a celebrated wood-engraver and artist and his younger brother Edward Whymper was a renowned alpinist who made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In his youth, Frederick Whymper was a talented artist working to produce engravings for publication and having his landscapes on exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1859 to 1861. In 1862, he travelled to Victoria; and British Columbia and to the Caribou...
A Not-so-savage Land
A richly illustrated exploration of the art, life, and historical impact of artist Frederick Whymper, who documented the landscape of the North American west. Before the advent of photography, the topography of the colonial North American landscape was recorded by travelling artists hired to reproduce what they saw with unadulterated realism. One of these artists was British-born Frederick Whymper, a young man whose honest vitality and unabashed worldview are evident in work he leaves behind. Throughout the 1860s, Whymper sketched his way from California to British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, and Siberia. He was the first to sketch the Fraser River route from New Westminster to Cariboo gold cou...
Basil
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Sermons out of Church
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Why We Laugh
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The Hughenots in France
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
My Mother and I
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