Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships' official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources--medicines, spices, timber, food--that could give the French an edge in the... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2010 -
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey: A Legacy to the World (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850)
by Glynis Ridley • Pat Rogers • Shaun Regan • Paul Goring • Melvyn New • Jennifer Preston Wilson • Julia Banister • Chris Ewers • Alexander Hardie-Forsyth • Fraser Easton • Peter BudrinLaurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2021 -
Robinson Crusoe after 300 Years (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850)
by Maximillian E. Novak • Glynis Ridley • Pat Rogers • Geoffrey Sill • Laura Schafer Brown • Jeremy Chow • Amy Hicks • Scott Pyrz • Andreas K Mueller • Benjamin Pauley • Daniel YuWhen The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe first published in 1719, Defoe could not have imagined that his protagonist would enjoy global recognition 300 years later. With no shortage of explanations for its longevity, Defoe’s tou... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2021