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paperbackNederlands9789031503612
22-9-2008
Op 23 december 1787 vaart het schip Bounty uit, met William Bligh als gezagvoerder. Op 28 april 1789 breekt er muiterij uit en wordt Bligh met een aantal lotgenoten op een open boot gezet. Meer
e-bookNederlands230 blz.9789000331321
1-8-2013
Op 23 december 1787 vaart het schip Bounty uit, met William Bligh als gezagvoerder. Op 28 april 1789 breekt er muiterij uit en wordt Bligh met een aantal lotgenoten op een open boot gezet. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108004701
20-7-2009
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, including the voyages of Sir John Ross, Sir William Parry, Sir James Clark Ross and Sir John Franklin (the last of which famously ended in disaster). Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108082136
27-4-2015
A staunch supporter of exploration, Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) backed expeditions to Africa, Australia, the Arctic and the Antarctic during his forty-year tenure as Second Secretary to the Admiralty. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108013628
29-7-2010
In 1792, a British embassy headed by Earl Macartney travelled from Peking (Beijing), China, to Canton (Guangzou) with the aim of improving trade with China. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108067218
31-10-2013
Richard, Earl Howe (1726–99) participated in some of the Royal Navy's most significant conflicts. As captain of the Dunkirk, he fired the first shots of the Seven Years' War off the eastern coast of North America in 1755. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108028165
17-2-2011
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was a distinguished British government diplomat whose career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108031134
11-5-2011
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was Second Secretary to the Admiralty for forty years. He was responsible for promoting polar exploration, and published two books on the subject for general readers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108030830
9-5-2011
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848), a founder and early president of the Royal Geographical Society, served as Second Secretary to the Admiralty for forty years. Meer
GebondenEngels9781409412779
28-7-2010
With an appendix, of extracts from the log of Captain Middleton on his Voyage for the Discovery of the North-West Passage in H.M.S Furnace in 1741-2; this is a reproduction of the remarks of Captain W. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108031417
8-12-2011
First published in 1831, this account of a notorious event in the history of the navy makes extensive use of letters, papers and the testimony of those involved. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108032773
22-9-2011
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, including the voyages of Sir John Ross, Sir William Parry, Sir James Clark Ross and Sir John Franklin. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108032780
22-9-2011
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, including the voyages of Sir John Ross, Sir William Parry, Sir James Clark Ross and Sir John Franklin. Meer
onbekendEngels9781108032797
22-9-2011
Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, including the voyages of Sir John Ross, Sir William Parry, Sir James Clark Ross and Sir John Franklin. Meer
PaperbackEngels9788129138903
2-2-2016
PaperbackEngels9789356567344
22-4-2022
PaperbackEngels9780099539865
2-2-2012
This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099983804
5-3-1992
The Holy Grail of modern scientists is 'The Theory of Everything', which will contain all that can be known about the Universe - the magic formula that Einstein spent his life searching for and failed to find. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099772118
25-3-1999
Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. that any Universe complex enough to contain conscious beings will contain limits on what those beings can know about their Universe; that what we cannot know defines reality as surely as what we can know. Meer