The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831: Scottish Surgeon, Naturalist and British Agent to the Court of Madagascar 3030516474, 9783030516475

Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822 9780773564923

Only a handful of the original members of Sir John Franklin's first Arctic expedition returned. John Richardson was

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The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment 9780226735627

In a provocative reassessment of one of the quintessential figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores R

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Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema 9780226610115

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison

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Memoirs of a British Agent 9781848326293, 1848326297

Robert Bruce Lockhart was Acting British Consul-General in Moscow from 1915 and in 1918, as head of the British Mission,

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Memoirs of a British Agent 9781848326293

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Chattanooga's Robert Sparks Walker : The Unconventional Life of an East Tennessee Naturalist 9781625845672, 9781626191136

The legend that was Robert Sparks Walker began in a log cabin outside Chattanooga called Spring Frog Cabin, a humble abo

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Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics: The Bard of Contention (1914-2014) 9781399503471

Explores Robert Burns’s political legacy in modern and contemporary Scotland Uses Burns's lens to study radical cha

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Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic 9781474455480

Charts the transatlantic movements of Scottish literature in the Age of Revolution Offers an in-depth examination of Sco

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The New Natural History of Madagascar 9780691229409

A marvelously illustrated reference to the natural wonders of one of the most spectacular places on earth Separated fro

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne 9780141942049, 0141942045

Hidden within the rituals of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is a fascinating mystery. Professor James Mur

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