Seasons with the Sea-horses; Or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern SeasHurst and Blackett, 1861 - 312 Seiten |
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Seasons with the Sea-Horses; Or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas HardPress,James Lamont Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
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Seite 300 - A book of travels which in value and sterling interest must take rank as a landmark in geographical literature, its coloured illustrations and wood engravings are of a high order, and add a great charm to the narrative. Mr. Atkinson has travelled where it is believed no European has been before.
Seite 255 - In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as...
Seite 301 - Ngami was reached by a route that had been deemed impracticable, but which proves to be the shortest and the best. The work contains much scientific and accurate Information...
Seite 295 - Upon these points, aa well as with reference to other persons who occupied a prominent position during this period, abundant information is afforded by Miss Freer; and the public will feel with us that a deep debt of gratitude is due to that lady for the faithful and admirable manner in which she has pourtrayed the Court and Times of Henry the Third.
Seite 300 - ... taste is gratified by chronicles of sport, the lover of adventure will find a number of perils and escapes to hang over, and the lover of a frank good.humoured way of speech will find the book a pleasant one in every page. Seven years of wandering, thirty-nine thousand five hundred miles of moving to and fro in a wild and almost unknown country, should yield a book worth reading, and they do."— Examiner.
Seite 295 - Miss Freer having won for herself the reputation of a most painstaking and trustworthy historian not less than an accomplished writer, by her previous memoirs of sovereigns of the houses of Valois and Navarre, will not fail to meet with a most cordial and hearty welcome for her present admirable history of Henry III,, the last of the French kings of the house of Valois. We...
Seite 295 - Prescott are probably the best samples of our modern biographers. The present volumes will be a boon to posterity for which It will be grateful. Equally suitable for instruction and amusement, they portray one of the most interesting characters and periods of history.
Seite 294 - HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF HENRY IV-, KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE. From numerous Original Sources. By MISS FREER. Author of " The Lives of Marguerite d'Angouleme, Elizabeth de Valois, Henry III,
Seite 295 - Strickland has earned her well-deserved popularity."— Critic. ELIZABETH DE VALOIS, QUEEN OF SPAIN, AND THE COURT OF PHILIP II. From numerous unpublished sources in the Archives of France, Italy, and Spain. By MISS FREER. 2 vols post 8vo. with fine Portraits by HEATH, 21s.
Seite 293 - Lord Melbourne and his Ministry — Proceedings of the Kings of Hanover and Belgium — Private Negotiations at Apsley House — Secret History of Court Arrangements. &c. "These volumes bring to a conclusion the interesting series of memoirs which have been, published under the auspices of the Duke of Buckingham during the last few years.