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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    29 August 2010
    24 September 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511694981
    9781108004602
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511694981
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.35kg, 268 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
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    In 1880, the Royal Geographical Society commissioned Sir Clements R. Markham, a noted British geographer and the Society's secretary, to write a history of its formation, and of the many expeditions it had supported since 1830, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Published in 1881, The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society consists of twelve chapters. The first five are a condensed history of the original group of geographers who called themselves the Raleigh Club, and the events leading up to the Society's official formation. Chapters 6 and 7 recount the activities of past presidents, secretaries and leading members of the Society, with the rest of the book detailing the fascinating scientific expeditions the Society sponsored financially from the Arctic to Antarctica, the explorers who took part in them, and the various publications the Society published to advance natural science and exploration.

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