R. s. marriott (9 Ergebnisse)

Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, cream dustjacket, 4th edition [1917], thick 8vo: frontispiece folding map, xij, 602pp., [2]pp., footnotes & references, epilogue, appendices, index. Fine copy..

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9781862390508. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Geological Society Special Publication No. 163. Light signs of wear on the hardcover edges. The spine ends are slightly bumped. The page block head is a little foxed. Previous owner's details penned on front pastedown. All pages are clean and clear. CM. Used.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 64pp. 28cm. Double column. Colour, black and white and sepia photographic ilustrations. Decorated end papers. Hard cover in marked dust jacket. A good clean copy [493g].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, blue cloth, general spotting, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, label of the Christian Science Reading Room, Tunbridge Wells on front end paper, illustrated with photographs, 378 pages. Scarce [QP].

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Floodplains are an important functional part of fluvial systems. They absorb and gradually release floodwaters, filter contaminants from run-off, recharge groundwater, provide diverse wildlife habitats and are sites of sediment accumulation and storage. The relatively flat, generally fertile land with a readily available water supply has attracted considerable agricultural and urban development throughout the world; with the result that many floodplains' natural functions have been lost or damaged. Development and management of floodplains has tended to be rather piecemeal, often with a lack of regard for the critical roles they play in fluvial and ecological systems. To a large extent this has been due to an absence of communication between stakeholders, practitioners and scientists. In the rock record, fluvial sediments are host to economic accumulations of hydrocarbons, gold and other minerals. They also act as aquifers for the storage and transport of freshwater, though because of the filtering functions of the floodplain contaminants may reach dangerous levels. In order to extract minerals efficiently and to deal with potential pollution problems a better understanding of the whole fluvial system is required and until relatively recently the study of floodplain development has not been integrated.This book brings together papers on current themes by some of those at the forefront of research into the many aspects of modern floodplains, recent and ancient alluvial deposits. It shows the multidisciplinary nature of the subject and the value of interdisciplinary study. Readership: Geographers, Geologists, Ecologists, Environmental Engineers and Managers. Also as a secondary text for courses in fluvial geomorphology and aquatic ecology.…

Zustand: Good. 17x21 cm. Black and white engraving. Very Good. In plastic sleeve.

Original side stitched 13½'' x 10'' vintage paper sheet music comprising 11 pages of score plus the covers. Wonderful full-page colour lithograph front cover, rear cover in place. This was at one time bound in a larger collection but was originally published as a single piece, consequently some of thread to the stitching has worked loose, but still perfectly acceptable. Hastings Pier is a pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, built in 1872. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.…

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. Vortitel, Titel, S. (V)-XVIII, 1 Bl. (Officers of the "Providence"), 290 S., 1 Bl. (Druckvermerk). Mit 1 Frontispiz und 16 Abbildungen und Karten. Original-Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, gr. 8°. Rücken gleichmäßig ein wenig geblichen. Ein gutes, sauberes Exemplar! 1787 begann Blighs sagenhafte Reise auf der Bounty, deren Zweck es war, Brotfrüchte zu den Westindischen Inseln zu bringen ? eine Idee, die auf Joseph Banks zurückging. Nach 5-monatigem Aufenthalt auf Tahiti begann Anfang April 1789 die Rückreise. Drei Wochen später meuterte die Mannschaft. Der Anführer des Aufstandes war Fletcher Christian. Bligh wurde zusammen mit 18 ihm treuen Besatzungsmitgliedern in einem Boot ausgesetzt und schaffte es, die 6700 km bis Timor unbeschadet zurückzulegen ? eine navigatorische Meisterleistung. 1790 betrat er wieder britischen Boden, wurde als Held gefeiert und von jeder Schuld an der Meuterei freigesprochen. Bligh gab nicht auf und seine zweite, hier beschriebene Brotfruchtexpedition, dieses Mal auf der "Providence", begleitet von der HMS Assistant, von 1791-1793, verlief erfolgreich. Die Meuterei auf der Bounty schlug in der Öffentlichkeit so hohe Wellen, dass sie das weitere Wirken Blighs überschattete. So blieb seine zweite - und dieses Mal erfolgreiche - Brotfruchtexpedition weitgehend unbeachtet und Blighs Reisebericht erschien erst 1920 - ganze 130 Jahre nach dem eigentlichen Ereignis. Ida Lee, Herausgeberin des Werks schreibt in ihrer Einleitung (Auszug): The second voyage of Captain Bligh to the South Sea, so far as I know, has never been published. A short description of the passage of his ships, the "Providence" and the "Assistant," through Torres Strait, was included in his work Terra Australis, by Matthew Flinders, who served as a midshipman in the "Providence". These particulars, however, were taken from Flinders' own log. Written in 1791-93 Bligh's log-books, after being for some time at the Admiralty, were lent to the Great Exhibition of 1851. They were not afterwards returned to Whitehall, but remained at South Kensington undisturbed and unsought for, until Mr. Perrin, the present Admiralty Librarian, to whom my cordial thanks are due for permission to transcribe them, recovered the forgotten volumes and replaced them in the Admiralty Library. Interest in this second voyage of Bligh may possibly have been over-shadowed by the popularity of the story of his first voyage, which included the "Mutiny of the Bounty'". Dampier, Anson, and Cook on returning to England had given glowing accounts of the virtues of the breadfruit, and in 1787, when King George III. complied with a request from the merchants of the West Indies to introduce the tree into those islands, Bligh was placed in command of the ship chosen to carry out this object.. …