Dorothy Middleton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3647585 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dorothy Middleton |
| PRENOMES | Dorothy |
| SOBRENOME | Middleton |
| ASSINATURA | MIDDLETON D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Galen Research (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 100 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 98 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1950 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Francis Galton
Not long before he died Galton wrote to a nephew: ‘My version of the saying “Whom the Gods love, die young”, is that they still feel young however old in years they may be. I think, from that point of view, that the Gods must have some tendresse to me, because although I am 871⁄2 years old, I hardly feel myself to be even matured’. It was this perpetual spring of youth, stimulating and sustaining an insatiable curiosity in the world about him, th…
Explorers and Exploration
The Euphrates Expedition
Stanley
Kenya
A Victorian Earl in the Arctic
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The Witness and the Other World
Over the Rim of the World
Dust and Snow
A Merchants Perspective
Travel Literature Through the Ages
Antarctica, Cambridge, Conservation and Population
The Gentleman Savage
A Traveller on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran
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A Girdle Round the Earth
To the Ends of the Earth
Masson of Afghanistan
Traveller Through Time
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. vol. 1, 1821-1836
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Victorian Lady Travellers
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Zanzibar
The Exploration Diaries of H. M. Stanley
Stanley
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The Early History of the Hakluyt Society 1847-1923
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From the Hands of the Wicked
The Exploration Diaries of H. M. Stanley
Mount Everest
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Throw out Two Hands
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Full Tilt
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The Englishwoman in America
Victorian Lady Travellers
Tibetan Foothold
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Slowly down the Ganges
New Light on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
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