Earth Sciences


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  • Cover scan of Journal Of A Lady Of Quality
    Journal Of A Lady Of Quality
    Janet Schaw - Paperback - University of Nebraska Press
    This volume chronicles the travels of Janet Schaw, who journeyed with her brother from Edinburgh to the continent of the 'New World' in 1774. It is her account of the voyage, described in letters to a friend in Scotland, and they reveal the atmosphere of America on the verge of revolution.
  • Cover scan of Journey Into Africa
    Journey Into Africa: The Life And Death Of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer And Explorer (1844-79)
    James McCarthy - Paperback - Whittles
    This true and dramatic story begins with the finding of the last expedition diary of a forgotten Edinburgh cartographer - keith Johnston. The diary was lying in the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland's storeroom and concerns his last, fatal expedition into the interior of Africa.