Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers by Peter Raby

Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

Peter Raby

276 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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This is an account of the great burst of scientific exploration in the 19th century: the search for the North-West passage; the penetration of the Australian outback; and the hunt for the sources of the Nile, Niger, Amazon and Brahmaputra. There a...

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