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Honduras Interoceanic Railway
With Maps Of The Line And Ports: And An Appendix, Containing Report Of Admiral R. Fitzroy, R.n., The Charter, Illustrative Documents, Treaties, &c
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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Honduras Interoceanic Railway
With Maps Of The Line And Ports: And An Appendix, Containing Report Of Admiral R. Fitzroy, R.n., The Charter, Illustrative Documents, Treaties, &c
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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South American Pilot.] Part II. Sailing Directions for South America. La Plata, Patagonia, Falkland and Staten Islands, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. By Captain R. FitzRoy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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South American Pilot.] Part II. Sailing Directions for South America. La Plata, Patagonia, Falkland and Staten Islands, Chili, Bolivia, and Peru. By Captain R. FitzRoy
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) is best remembered as the commander of HMS Beagle who took on Charles Darwin as the Ship's naturalist, but his most important scientific contribution was probably the establishment of the Meteorological Office in 1854. Convinced that falling barometric pressure was an indicator of storms, he had barometers set up at ports around the coast, so that boats would be aware of impending bad weather, and later had reports telegraphed to his office in London for collation; he invented the term 'forecasting the weather'. This work, published in 1863, gives an account of observations by himself and others, experiments, and proposals for future developments. Almost unbelievably, the Government declared that Fitzroy was exceeding his remit: he was instructed to restrict himself to collecting data, and it is believed that the depression he suffered at this setback was one of the factors which led to his suicide in 1865.
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle
Between the Years 1826 and 1836
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of South America. Volume 1 of this three-volume work, published in 1839, describes that 1826-30 expedition, while Volumes 2 and 3 cover the second voyage. Compiled by Robert Fitzroy (1805-65), captain of the Beagle from 1828, Volume 1 is based on the journals of Phillip Parker King (1791-56), the expedition's commander, whose account of his earlier survey of Australia is also reissued. Tasked with surveying the coast from Montevideo to Cape Horn and north to Chilóe, and 'collecting and preserving specimens of ... natural history', the expedition spent its first two field seasons around Tierra del Fuego, enduring hunger, scurvy and severe weather. It reached Chilóe in 1829, and returned to England a year later.
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle
Between the Years 1826 and 1836
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's famous voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of South America. This three-volume work, published in 1839, describes both voyages. Volume 2 is Fitzroy's account of his voyage with Darwin. He describes how the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Captain Beaufort (founder of The Nautical Magazine, also reissued), approved the proposal that 'some well educated and scientific person' should join the expedition: Darwin was chosen. Fitzroy's descriptions of the locations visited and their natural history provide a fascinating counterpoint to Darwin's own account of the voyage, the first published version of which makes up Volume 3. Fitzroy refers regularly to the geographical and scientific books that he and Darwin kept in the ship's library. The majority of these are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle
Between the Years 1826 and 1836
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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In the years leading up to Charles Darwin's 1832-6 voyage on the Beagle, the ship and its captain Robert Fitzroy (1805-65) had participated in an expedition to the desolate southern coast of South America. This three-volume work, published in 1839, describes both voyages. Volumes 1 and 2, compiled by Fitzroy, contain accounts by professional mariners. Volume 3 is the first published version of the young Darwin's now famous journal. It later appeared as a free-standing publication (1840) and in a more popular second edition (1845), both reissued in this series. Darwin's preface refers to the detailed scientific publications resulting from his research: the geological studies of volcanic islands and coral reefs (also available in the Cambridge Library Collection), and the co-authored, multi-volume zoology. Darwin expresses thanks to Fitzroy for his 'most cordial friendship', to the ship's officers for their 'undeviating kindness', and particularly to his Cambridge mentor John Stevens Henslow.
Passage Table and General Sailing Directions ... Published by Authority of the Board of Trade.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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