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The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society
Clements R. Markham
其他書名
Cambridge Library Collection. History
出版
Independently Published
, 2019-07-10
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN
1079590064
9781079590067
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=06llxwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In 1880, the Royal Geographical Society commissioned Sir Clements R. Markham, a noted British geographer and the Society's secretary, to write a history of its formation, and of the many expeditions it had supported since 1830, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Published in 1881, The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society consists of twelve chapters. The first five are a condensed history of the original group of geographers who called themselves the Raleigh Club, and the events leading up to the Society's official formation. Chapters 6 and 7 recount the activities of past presidents, secretaries and leading members of the Society, with the rest of the book detailing the fascinating scientific expeditions the Society sponsored financially from the Arctic to Antarctica, the explorers who took part in them, and the various publications the Society published to advance natural science and exploration.